Weasels Quotes

• Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

  Matt Groening

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 14 Feb. 1991

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• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Clever, Business

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• Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

  Matt Groening

  Animal, Important, Funny Simpsons

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". TV Series "The Simpsons" ("Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood", 1993), www.imdb.com. (1989– ).

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• To err is human. To cover it up is weasel.

  Scott Adams

  Humans, Err Is Human

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• Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Lunch, Comedy

  You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (motion picture) (1939).

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• There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

  Scott Adams

  Moral Behavior, Life Happens, Gray Area

  "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel". Book by Scott Adams, 2002.

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• One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Use, Tendencies

  Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

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• The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

  John Benfield

  Eagles, Jet Engines, May

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• Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Whales, Camels

  'hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [400]

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• One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Eggs, Meat, Use

  Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

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• I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

  Cassandra Clare

  Two, Looks, Rats

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• Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS?

  David Letterman

  Running, New York, Cities

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• A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Issues, Vices

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

  Homer

  Jobs, Half, Way

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• There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

  Charles Baxter

  Mistake, Character, Sound

  Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”

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• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Cheese

  "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Comedy, Game-Show, Music, 1996–2015.

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• Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Trials, Demand

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• Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

  Jay Leno

  Flames, Lobbyists, Congress

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• Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Trying, Sound, Would Be

  "Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries". Book by Denis Brian, August 1, 1995.

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• Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.

  Christopher Titus

  Revenge, Philosophy, Hippie

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

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• What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Morning, People

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.500, eBookIt.com

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• Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

  Arthur Mitchell

  Animal, Guilt, Funny Simpsons

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• Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

  Nicole Hollander

  Dog, Zebras, Cat

  Nicole Hollander (2002). “Cats with Attitude: Two Volumes in One Collection : Everything Here is Mine · My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-boned”, Gramercy

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