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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Tail.
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?
Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
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