Wagging Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and…
— Charles Darwin
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I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that…
— John Kendrick Bangs
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The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the…
— Jonathan Haidt
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You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
— Jonathan Haidt
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What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live…
— Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
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My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their…
— Blaize Clement
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To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of…
— Jon Winokur
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The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a…
— Barbara Woodhouse
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Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails,…
— Douglas Clegg
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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on…
— John Galsworthy
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And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I…
— Pablo Neruda
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Now, I am a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their shoes, the smell of…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we…
— Kenneth Grahame
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If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
— James Herriot
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One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts…
— Eugene O'Neill
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In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make…
— Chuck Norris
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Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I…
— Joanne Harris
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O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
— Robertson Davies
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One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry…
— Lauren Myracle
Who Wrote These Wagging Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 31 Wagging Quotes, led by these top contributors: