Paws Quotes
99 quotes by 82 authors
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. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain…
— Ernst Udet
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A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.
— Louis Wain
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I recognize the lion by his paw.
— Jacob Bernoulli
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Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous…
— Maureen O'Sullivan
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Trust me, Yorkies leave paw prints on your heart.
— Cindy Adams
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When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,…
— Mary Oliver
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When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself…
— Willie Morris
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted,…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.…
— Mark Twain
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She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When…
— Jack Lemmon
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Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence…
— Helen Keller
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Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes…
— Irving Babbitt
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Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure…
— A A Milne
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Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on…
— Gary Snyder
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I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and…
— George Meredith
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
— Douglas Coupland
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There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and…
— Rebecca Hall
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Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws…
— Edward Hoagland
Who Wrote These Paws Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 99 Paws Quotes, led by these top contributors: