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Tail Quotes by Mark Twain
- The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim…
- A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
- I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
- If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our…
- ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
- The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take…
- A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.…
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
- A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,…
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's…
- There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
- When you are in politics you are in a wasp's nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is.
- The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim…
More Tail Quotes
- What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and… — Amy Adams
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and… — Charles Baudelaire
- Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in. — Arthur Guiterman
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds… — Henry David Thoreau
- Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about… — Terry Pratchett
- From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set… — John Galsworthy
- It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. — A A Milne