Tails Quotes - Page 23

• God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Distance, Games

  Pensees no. 680 (1658). Popularly known as "Pascal's wager."

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• I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.

  Rona Barrett

  Iron, Assertiveness

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• I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  "Changeling - Clint Eastwood interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

  Hosea Ballou

  Mouths, Honey, Bees

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• One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

  Maxine Kumin

  Poetry, Mouths, Way

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• One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

  Franz Kafka

  One Day, Roaring, Three

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• I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

  Bill Bryson

  Fashion, Moving, Pieces

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Mouths, Perceive

  1988 'Poet as Fisherman'.

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• If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

  Aristophanes

  Cat, Men, Debt

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• Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doe, Calling, Legs

  Abraham Lincoln, John Herbert Clifford, Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1903). “Abraham Lincoln, the true story of a great life”

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• Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

  Mason Cooley

  Aphorism, Kink, Findings

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• The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

  Gina Barreca

  Cat, Humor, Facts

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

  Josh Billings

  Ears, Ends, Take Time

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.152

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• Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Husband, Men, Wife

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 183, 1958.

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• Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Pride, Modesty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

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• To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, People, Hypocrisy

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• Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Education, Money, Reality

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• Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

  Ally Carter

  Years, Ideas, Old Woman

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Winning, Loses

  Mohnish Pabrai (2011). “The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns”, p.28, John Wiley & Sons

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• [Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits." "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.

  Erin Hunter

  Past, Trying, Like You

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• The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Waiting, Noses

  Walker Percy (2013). “The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming: In One Volume”, p.356, Open Road Media

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• A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

  Meredith Willson

  Running, Men, Brave

  "Fictional character: Harold Hill". "The Music Man", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Three, Week

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.

  Gary Gulman

  Christian, Couple, Party

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• Who will mourn the passing of our magnificent kangaroos? Who will remember how the bush once danced in rhythm with the thumping, jumping kangaroos who flew over fences their great tails drumming on the earth? Who will remember the big red male kangaroo lying in the desert sun, his coat almost indistinguishable from the red earth from which he came?

  Sue Arnold

  Lying, Future, Jumping

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