Wags Quotes

• Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

  Kinky Friedman

  Friendship, Dog, Money

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• Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

  Josh Billings

  Dog, Tails, World

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• The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Funny, Underdog

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Joy, Tails

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• Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

  Virginia Graham

  Funny, Dog, Tails

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• Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Smile, Laughter, Fall

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• America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Dog, Small Rooms, America

  1949 Letter, 26 Oct.

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• A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

  Jerry Smith

  Dog, Men, Wish

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• My faith is the only thing that never fails me.

  Hayley Williams

  Education, Failing, Sewers

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• Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Dog, Years, Snuff

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.452, Open Road Media

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• Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption norms are local. It's not just the rich who spend more when they get more money. Everyone else does, too. The mansions of the rich may seem over the top to people in the middle, but the same could be said of middle-class houses as seen by most of the planet's seven billion people.

  Robert H. Frank

  Class, Luxury, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Memories, Grief

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi”, Signet

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• A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

  Josh Billings

  Running, Dog, Men

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• Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

  Donita K. Paul

  Brain, Tongue

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonFire: A Novel”, p.73, WaterBrook

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• Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Literature, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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• I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.

  Laura E. Richards

  Buttons, Honest, Kind

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• Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

  Cotton Mather

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Tails, Becoming, Empresses

  "The Siege at Peking". Book by Peter Fleming, p. 226, 1959.

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• I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Dog, Nice, Sleep

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.

  Sam Harris

  Dog, Atheist, Moving

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• Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

  Allen West

  Dog, Boko Haram, Scandal

  "The Boko Haram-Benghazi Lin" by Michael Hirsh, www.politico.com. May 12, 2014.

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• What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.

  William James

  Holiday, Mean, Responsibility

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• And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, May

  William Shakespeare (2010). “As You Like It”, p.47, Palgrave Macmillan

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