In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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S. J. PERELMAN I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS The tax tail should never wag the investment dog.
DAVID BERGMANN Marcus is the type of cop we all wished we could be,
BILL CLARK Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
UNKNOWN Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in...
THICH NHAT HANH Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
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JOSEPH EPSTEIN Economics should always be paramount over tax considerations. Don't let the tax tail wag the investm...
ROBERT MASON We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE Now shall I walk or shall I ride?
'Ride,' Pleasure said;
'Walk,' Joy replied.
W.H. DAVIES Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
DALE CARNEGIE Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we st...
STEVE GOODIER Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL And I think that's the story of our generation's pursuit of fulfillment in relationships. We wished ...
JOSHUA HARRIS The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottl...
RUDYARD KIPLING He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss...
PATRICK NESS You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The ...
DEBOLINA BHAWAL We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ...
WENDY MASS We could have met several times in December; unfortunately, PTEA rejected all of those dates.
MARGARET DININNO I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.
W.H. DAVIES Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us.
TODD STOCKER There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In Walworth County we have a strong tradition of 4-H programs.
CAROLYN BELCZYK What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.
CLIFFORD COHEN After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. ...
ROBERT MCCAMMON We live in blatantly corrupt times.
STEVEN MAGEE The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that...
DREW NELLINS SMITH We run fast forward at 200km/h searching for love, but sometimes the true one is at our back searchi...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES It felt like we were pouring gas on the fire the whole night. I think W&J is the best team in the co...
BRIAN NEAL He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.
MIKE ALDEN I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote ...
DOROTHY HODGKIN The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought...
SHERRILYN KENYON George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could...
RENE DESCARTES The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran ag...
DANA PERINO We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL I dont think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like t...
GERARD WAY We trotted, coach-dog fashion, at the heels of the human race, our tails wag.
BEN HECHT A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is ...
A.W. TOZER We just could never get in a rhythm. At times we were out of sync and we tried everything we could, ...
JEFF PARSONS One day last week we wished there was something we could do to help,
DANNY SIMMONS No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No ti...
W.H. DAVIES This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent g...
W.H. DAVIES It's nice to have a pet that offers unconditional love, someone who doesn't talk back. I love cats, ...
BOB VETERE It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA Sleep did not honor me with it’s presence.
ALYSHA SPEER Not all of us wish we could get, as not all we get is what we want
LYZ STANDSTRODE If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS Share your happiness with your friends; Your happiness will be multiplied. Share your sorrows with y...
DR. MATHIVANAN VELUMANI To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All of us are tethered to some purpose in life, and therefore we are unable to understand Krishna. W...
OSHO Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
JANE AUSTEN 'Tis merry in hall
Where beards wag all.
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B. F. SKINNER We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings...
VIKTOR FRANKL Just around here, we all knew what kind of talent we had. We all knew we could play with anybody in ...
DJ SHOCKLEY Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and send...
PAULO COELHO We wished we could have held it to town. At least that way you could say you almost made it.
JACKSON STEWART We need this. It was extra important for us to get a 'W' tonight.
BEN MARSH Mental maps. Maps with edges. And for Auden, for so many of us, it's the edges of the maps that fasc...
DAVID MITCHELL There is no REASON to keep SEASONAL people around for a LIFETIME.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times...
ROBERT KENNEDY The money will provide us with the extra things we always wished we could do. You know, the things y...
ANNETTE COBB Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've...
FRED ROGERS He wanted to let us know he was rooting for us and wished he could be here. He called us all and sai...
BRET BRIELMAIER The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
JAY SAMIT Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA We recognize the light and the joy he brought us. This is unbelievable, this unprecedented outpourin...
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W. H. AUDEN Though I believe it sinful to be queer, it has at least saved me from becoming a pillar of the estab...
W. H. AUDEN Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas.
W. H. AUDEN Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of ye...
W. H. AUDEN Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their conscience...
W. H. AUDEN A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. AUDEN I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance.
W. H. AUDEN Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a jou...
W. H. AUDEN We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know
W. H. AUDEN Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. AUDEN We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the...
W. H. AUDEN Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say
W. H. AUDEN Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of...
W. H. AUDEN Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs ...
W. H. AUDEN But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conq...
W. H. AUDEN It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfish...
W. H. AUDEN Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible.
W. H. AUDEN Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today...
W. H. AUDEN Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science
W. H. AUDEN In the nightmare of the dark - All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each seques...
W. H. AUDEN Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W. H. AUDEN When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door ...
W. H. AUDEN Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
W. H. AUDEN If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willful...
W. H. AUDEN All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will...
W. H. AUDEN Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme ma...
W. H. AUDEN For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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