(220 quotes found)
“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails”
Clarence Darrow
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits”
Charles Darwin
“I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.”
Wallace Stevens
“An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting”
William Cowper
“The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.”
Jean Claude Duvalier
“I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails”
Fred Astaire
“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”
Davy Crockett
“Their tails are high and tongues awag-the twin banners of sled dog contentment.”
Clara Germani
“Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!”
Rudyard Kipling
“She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail”
Benjamin Franklin
