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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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The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

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

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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

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J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

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If you the owner of the dog, really showing not just food but real affection, then dog very much appreciate. Isn't it?

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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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Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

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In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other.

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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

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Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

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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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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

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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

Dogs, ye have had your day!

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