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Letter "W" » wagging
«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
«A dog wags its tail with its heart»
«Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail»
«In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.»
«Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.»
«And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, / And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.»
«And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, / Save thyself, and come down from the cross.»
«ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle -- Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«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:
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«Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their tongues»
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