Beavers Quote by Douglas William Jerrold Download Open image “Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.” — Douglas William Jerrold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beavers Cloaks Lasts People Reputation
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“What's the use in having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?” — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
My reputation will precede me until the time I die, and for some people that can't come soon enough. — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Believe, people can ruin you reputation but no one can ever ruin your character except yourself — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh,… — Papa John Creach Copy Share Image
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process," she said in her speech. "I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've… — Emma Watson Copy Share
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs… — Mick Delaney Copy Share Image