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tail
«America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
chair, friendly, knocks, tail, wagging, wags
«Asked to explain Zen my puppy with the same name looks, and thumps his tail»
Author: Jay Hackett
| Keywords:
puppies, puppy, same name, tail, the same name, thump, thumping, thumps, Zen
«A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.»
Author: Larry Bird
(Basketball Player)
| About:
Success,
Winning
| Keywords:
accomplish, develop, give off, recognizes, skills, tail, talents, uses, winner, work off
«A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing»
Author: Thomas Nashe
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
Dog Eat Dog, flatter, hog, merchant, set back, tail, The Ear, traveler
«Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
comforted, golden, His Resurrection, resurrection, resurrections, tail, thou
«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
additional, all day long, anachronism, aspirant, deity, designed, divine being, dog days, fat, Fed, feed upon, idle, incarnations, overflow, overflows, place of worship, purchase, recognition, seasoned, smaller, soak, soaked, soaking, Solomon, Solomonic, spin, subsidiary, surplus, surpluses, survival, tail, takes in, The Dog, the Incarnation, toils, tolerant, wag, wagging, wags, wherewith, worked
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
double, double play, equivalent, flexible, forepart, hind, hinds, plays, tail, tread, tread on
«`Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, / `There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.'»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
faster, porpoise, snail, snails, tail, treading, whiting