Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitt Romney

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

R. Buckminster Fuller

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Seth Godin

It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'

Tobias Smollett

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Jodi Picoult

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

John Green

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

Leonardo da Vinci

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 of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

Mark Twain

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Elayne Boosler

You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

Henry Adams

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Henry David Thoreau

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

John Adams

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Heinrich Heine

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Miguel Syjuco

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

Kenneth Grahame

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!

Kathy Reichs

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

Oriana Fallaci

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

James Chanos

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

Jim Thompson

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Jonathan Ive

but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Kate Walsh

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

James Patterson

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

Eric Ludy

I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

John B. Larson

Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

Lil Wayne

I get Head and Tail like a quarter... in that order.

Lewis Carroll

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

Joseph Campbell

Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

Josh Billings

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

Lord Byron

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

Josh Billings

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.