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456 Tails quotes by 364 unique authors
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Lots of neat Christian boys, not a lot of Godly men. And we are working our tails off for you to try to develop some…
— Matt Chandler
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A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
— William James
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
— Josh Billings
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The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese…
— Winston Churchill
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...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…
— Mark Twain
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
— Lawrence Durrell
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I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
— Heinrich Heine
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Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more…
— Mike Royko
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Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the…
— John Lahr
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I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by…
— Ali Smith
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Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances…
— John B. Larson
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What is easily the most dangerous spot cats choose for sleeping? Beneath our feet-sprawled out in hallways or in doorways, tails predictably extended just to…
— Arnold Hano
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Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular…
— Dweezil Zappa
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge…
— Tobias Smollett
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The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous…
— George Washington Carver
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I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went…
— Bob Dylan
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The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
— John Steinbeck
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I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can…
— Anton du Beke
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I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off…
— Criss Angel
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The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the…
— John Diefenbaker
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I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in…
— Matthew Gray Gubler
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