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"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit." »Battaille
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"Tommy Fat guy in a little coat." »Tommy Boy
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"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." »Austin Phelps
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"Under a ragged coat lies wisdom." »Romanian Proverb
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"Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat." »Caecilius Statius
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"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn." »John Updike
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"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." »William Butler Yeats
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"Let every fox take care of his own tail." »Italian Proverb
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"Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails." »Clarence Darrow
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"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." »Portuguese Proverb
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"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to." »Josh Billings
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"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul." »Charles De Gaulle
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"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag." »W.H. Auden
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." »Mark Twain
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"If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week." »Will Rogers
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"There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." »W. C. Fields
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"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place." »John George Diefenbaker
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"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul." »Victor Hugo
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"A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,
a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all,
the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him,
the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing." »Thomas Nashe
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." »Arnold Toynbee
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"When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy." »Princess Anne
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*" »The Hitopadesa
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"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy." »Peter De Vries
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"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail." »Fran Lebowitz
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." »Albert Einstein
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