While between two stools my tail go to the ground


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Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
But it is said and ever shall, Between two stools lieth the fall
JOHN GOWER
There are only two variance between ME & the DEVIL. He has horns & a tail but I have none.
SMART GHOST
Life is a competition ground between two major forces:life & death.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail ...
PRINCESS ANNE
In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation...
ALICIA VIKANDER
Life is a battlefield & competitive ground between two major unseen forces;Life & Death.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...
There's an old African proverb that I have on my desk that says a lot about partnerships. If you wan...
PATTY STONESIFER
I own motorized bar stools.
JIMMIE JOHNSON
While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail o...
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS
That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our liv...
HIRO MASHIMA
We circled what seemed like an eternity trying to decide whether we should stay there, whether we sh...
BARBARA GROVES
The shark has its head to the west and tail to the east, very much the way the Indians would put a h...
BOB CARR
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games one played in the air,...
BEN HOGAN
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air...
BEN HOGAN
Some people have two faces, like the two sides of a coin. When it's on the ground, you can only see ...
ANISH G. NAIR
Total devastation. The grand piano was found in the street in 16 pieces. The long-tail [fishing] boa...
LOUIS BRONNER
As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the econom...
JOHN ROOS
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between...
DAVID ALMOND
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
As a Test side, they were one of the few sides to leave Australia without their tail between their l...
JOHN BRACEWELL
My agenda has always been to bridge the gap between the two groups,
KEITH BEAUCHAMP
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Now... thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there's not enough Truffula Fruit to go 'round...
DR. SEUSS
Don't look for us to be pulling out the acoustic guitar and the stools on this trip.
CHRIS SHIFLETT
She bounced (off the ground). (And) she almost beat out the two ground balls to second base.
FRANK BONACCI
We're not just going to give this away and run out of town with our tail between our legs.
MARK SPANO
I've been changing my arm slot so I get tail on my fastball. I'm over the top right now and he wants...
JASON HOOPER
I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The difference between you and me is that I couldn’t let you go while you couldn’t hold on
DALEEN IRSHAID
Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art...
MEREDITH MONK
You are my sunrise
and my sunset and the
warmth between the two
JOSé N. HARRIS
My husband and I decided we were going to make them work together, and that really made the argument...
LISA ALEXANDER
It's like a little boy dragging a dead cat around by the tail. After a while the thrill wears off.
WAYNE JOHNSON
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races,...
T. D. JAKES
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and...
MEREDITH MONK
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON
His nose caught my tail. That's the beauty of it.
DREW NEILSON
Don't blow smoke up my tail, expecting me to fly away.
SUSIE L HILL
The frog started to loosen last week and shed during the gallop, ... the cushion between the two hee...
RICHARD MANDELLA
You have to start thinking 'do I want this car?' knowing that at any time an electrical problem coul...
LAUREN FIX
So while I've been tied up with my balloons and my gliders, I've lost considerable ground in terms o...
STEVE FOSSETT
So while I've been tied up with my balloons and my gliders, I've lost considerable ground in terms o...
STEVE FOSSETT
between the rhetoric here in Washington and the reality on the ground.
JOSEPH BIDEN
My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
ROBERT A. M. STERN
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Are you two you know?" Jacob pointed at us. " Together? Together? "
I didn't get a chan...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
JOSH BILLINGS
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
JOSH BILLINGS
It's not particularly fun to have to factor in step stools to almost all areas of your home.
BLAKE MCIVER EWING
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Asked to explain Zen my puppy with the same name looks, and thumps his tail
JAY HACKETT
Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focu...
T. B. JOSHUA
It would go back and forth between the two of us and then it would go over here and bang its head on...
PATTI SMITH
My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds.
ISSEY MIYAKE
Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit; And look you get a prayer book in ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
TRYON EDWARDS
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both
TRYON EDWARDS
I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togethe...
JANET MILES
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
When we hit the store, the police were on the scene. We were literally picked off the stools and tak...
CLARENCE GRAHAM
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
The difference between the student radicals and the Hell's Angels is that the students are rebelling...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
I got a lot of pressure over a period of about two weeks, and I held my ground, ... I was committed ...
PATRICK MCHENRY
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Thanks for working your tail off.” Leglin turned his head to check his hindquarters. “My tail is...
GAYLA DRUMMOND
My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was ...
ALAN THICKE
I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
DAVID MACKAY
He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes...
ALISON GOODMAN
If you lose direction, go to a higher ground.
TOBA BETA
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they go...
DEAN KOONTZ
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I ro...
GLEN COOK
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.
CHRISSIE HYNDE
CSMS is a very interesting platform. It's built from the ground up to provide integration between it...
JOEL CONOVER
Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the...
JOHANN LAMONT
I was really trying to get a ground-ball double play. But once I got to two strikes, my mentality ch...
JUSTIN VERLANDER
I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE
My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to...
ISSEY MIYAKE

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