The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry


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Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
DAVID HARE
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
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Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
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EDWARD YOUNG
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS
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Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.
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JOHN GEDDES
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. MENCKEN
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
SYLVIA PLATH
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose
SYLVIA PLATH
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat
ROY BLOUNT, JR.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
MARIO CUOMO
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
ROBERT MORGAN
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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HORACE WALPOLE
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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat still had eight lives left.
MARK WOODS
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The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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TANA FRENCH
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
The cat is the mirror of his human's mind...the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.
WINIFRED CARRIERE
Cat got your tongue, or dog got your tail?
SEAN CROSBY
A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel
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The days of 'boys will be boys' or, 'it's just a dog or a stray cat' are over.
DIANE BALKIN
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
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You own a dog; you feed a cat.
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May is wonderful. She's the only one who was kind to Julian during that time.
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Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.
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the dog or animal may humanely be dispatched.
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
FRENCH PROVERB
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
FRENCH PROVERB
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
FRENCH PROVERB
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
FRENCH PROVERB
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
FRENCH PROVERB
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers
FRENCH PROVERB
It is overdoing the thing to die for love.
FRENCH PROVERB
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
FRENCH PROVERB
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happ...
FRENCH PROVERB
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
FRENCH PROVERB
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
FRENCH PROVERB
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
FRENCH PROVERB
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
FRENCH PROVERB
Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
FRENCH PROVERB
Skeptics are never deceived.
FRENCH PROVERB
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
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In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
FRENCH PROVERB
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
FRENCH PROVERB
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
FRENCH PROVERB
It is impossible to overdo luxury
FRENCH PROVERB
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
FRENCH PROVERB
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
FRENCH PROVERB
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
FRENCH PROVERB
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
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If you want the truth, ask a child.
FRENCH PROVERB
If the young only knew; if the old only could.
FRENCH PROVERB
Honey is sweet but bees sting.
FRENCH PROVERB
He that seeks trouble never misses.
FRENCH PROVERB
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
FRENCH PROVERB
From word to deed is a great space.
FRENCH PROVERB
Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
FRENCH PROVERB
Better the foot slip than the tongue.
FRENCH PROVERB
Anger is a bad counselor.
FRENCH PROVERB
A crow is no whiter for being washed.
FRENCH PROVERB
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
FRENCH PROVERB
Don't bark if you can't bite.
FRENCH PROVERB
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done...
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A closed mouth catches no flies
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The well traveled may lie with impunity
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Only that which is provisional endures.
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Fortune helps him that's willing to help himself.
FRENCH PROVERB
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Fine feathers make fine birds
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
FRENCH PROVERB
Every flow has its ebb.
FRENCH PROVERB
There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
FRENCH PROVERB
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
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Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the ...
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Long on hair, short on brains
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A ragged colt may make a good horse.
FRENCH PROVERB
A young doctor brings a green churchyard.
FRENCH PROVERB
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
FRENCH PROVERB
One bad general is better than two good ones
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People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their ple...
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One bee makes no swarm.
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'Tis good to go on foot when one hath a horse
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Everything tempts the man who fears temptation
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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
FRENCH PROVERB
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
FRENCH PROVERB
To compare is not to prove
FRENCH PROVERB
To compare is not to improve
FRENCH PROVERB
He who is near the church is often far from God
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He who survives will see the outcome.
FRENCH PROVERB
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
FRENCH PROVERB
Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first
FRENCH PROVERB
He who takes a partner takes a master
FRENCH PROVERB
A bad sheerer never had a good sickle.
FRENCH PROVERB
Appearances are deceiving.
FRENCH PROVERB
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it
FRENCH PROVERB
To leave a place is to die a little
FRENCH PROVERB
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance
FRENCH PROVERB
Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face.
FRENCH PROVERB
Who loves well, chastises well.
FRENCH PROVERB
The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing).
FRENCH PROVERB
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical
FRENCH PROVERB
Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old.
FRENCH PROVERB
Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble
FRENCH PROVERB
Everything goes to him who wants nothing
FRENCH PROVERB
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love
FRENCH PROVERB
Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve.
FRENCH PROVERB
Redheaded women are either violent or false, and usually are both
FRENCH PROVERB
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
FRENCH PROVERB
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
FRENCH PROVERB
A hungry clown is half mad.
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Liars need good memories
FRENCH PROVERB
Set your sail to the wind.
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A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.
FRENCH PROVERB
All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment
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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it
FRENCH PROVERB
A late Easter, a long cold spring.
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Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
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I know by my own pot how the others boil.
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A bad bush is better than an open field.
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This creature is very wicked. He defends himself when attacked.
FRENCH PROVERB
Ready money works great cures
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A white wall is the fool's paper
FRENCH PROVERB
One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
FRENCH PROVERB
Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
FRENCH PROVERB
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
FRENCH PROVERB
Fear is a great inventor.
FRENCH PROVERB
Life is an onion and one peels it crying
FRENCH PROVERB
A good hater; a good lover
FRENCH PROVERB
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
FRENCH PROVERB
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear
FRENCH PROVERB
When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
FRENCH PROVERB
God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home
FRENCH PROVERB
He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
FRENCH PROVERB
Life works out - but not as you expect it
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience
FRENCH PROVERB
Love teaches even asses to dance
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men
FRENCH PROVERB
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
FRENCH PROVERB
Where there's music there can be love
FRENCH PROVERB
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
FRENCH PROVERB
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich
FRENCH PROVERB
A black hen lays a white egg.
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No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give
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Ill seed, ill weed
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If it can lick, it can bite
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In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
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He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
FRENCH PROVERB
One may go a long way after one is tired
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Everyone thinks his own burden heavy
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A year of snow, a year of plenty.
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Penny wise is often pound foolish.
FRENCH PROVERB
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do
FRENCH PROVERB
Who is angry must be pleased again.
FRENCH PROVERB
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting
FRENCH PROVERB
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
FRENCH PROVERB
Who punishes one threatens a hundred
FRENCH PROVERB
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
FRENCH PROVERB
Don't find fault with what you don't understand
FRENCH PROVERB
There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
FRENCH PROVERB
A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind
FRENCH PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
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They are not free who drag their chains after them
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It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach
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Great talker, great liar.
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And old rat is a brave rat.
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To believe a thing impossible is to make it so
FRENCH PROVERB
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall
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Who never climbed, never fell.
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Think much, speak little, and write less
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He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
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He who makes excuses, accuses himself
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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.
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Forewarned, forearmed.
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Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
FRENCH PROVERB
Skeptics are never deceived
FRENCH PROVERB
One turn serves another.
FRENCH PROVERB
The first step binds one to the second.
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy
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I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
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TANA FRENCH
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you'r...
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or h...
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to...
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you onl...
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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds th...
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Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman wh...
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, o...
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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to ...
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That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and p...
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid ...
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I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. Whe...
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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with wome...
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To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolt...
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Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes th...
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How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.
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One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the wo...
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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
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Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?
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