Anton Chekhov Quotes, Dog Quotes, Writing Quotes

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mother Quotes , Dog Quotes

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Dog Quotes , Taoism Quotes

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

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When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dog Quotes , Home Quotes

The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Dog Quotes , Cat Quotes

If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Dog Quotes , Fighting Quotes

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dog Quotes , Work Quotes

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Dog Quotes , Men Quotes

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Education Quotes , Dog Quotes

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dog Quotes , Native American Quotes

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Funny Quotes , Dog Quotes

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Running Quotes , Dog Quotes

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Dog Quotes , Memories Quotes

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Sister Quotes , Dog Quotes

When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Dog Quotes

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Dog Quotes , Smart Quotes

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Dog Quotes , Art Quotes

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dog Quotes , Long Quotes