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"I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads." »Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration
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"If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal." »Edward Irving Koch
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"Human animal is considered the most valuable animal to enforce/ensure each others growth" »GSAN
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"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires." »Alexander Graham Bell
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." »William Hazlitt
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"True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!.." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied." »Henry George
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"Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'." »B. J. Gupta
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"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied." »Henry George
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"After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein." »Mark Gooley
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"You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for" »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make." »Dennis Potter
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb
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"This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror." »William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
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"If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup." »Turkish Proverb
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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." »Turkish proverb
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"When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot." »African Proverb
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"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror." »William Shakespeare
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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave." »Plutarch
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"He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup." »American Proverb
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"A closed mouth gathers no foot." »Unknown
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"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot." »Steve Post
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"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind." »Chinese Proverb
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"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time." »Colette
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"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838
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"One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot." »Unknown
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"Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot." »Unknown
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