Winston Churchill Quotes, Dog Quotes, Dining Quotes

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Dog Quotes , Mean Quotes

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Dog Quotes , Heaven 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

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Dog Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Dog Quotes , Queens Quotes

...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Dog Quotes , Strong Quotes

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Funny Quotes , Dog Quotes

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Dog Quotes , Answers Quotes

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Dog Quotes

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Dog Quotes , People Quotes

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dog Quotes , Artist Quotes

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Dog Quotes , Men Quotes

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

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I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

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I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Dog Quotes , Sea 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

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Dog Quotes , Confused Quotes

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Dog Quotes , Vegetarianism Quotes

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Dog Quotes , Government Quotes