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"The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?" »Eknath Easwaran
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"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom." »Sorin Cerin
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"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate." »Arthur Wing Pinero
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"The future is the past returning through another gate." »Arnold Glasgow
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"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire." »Salvador Dali
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"The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate." »Marcus Terentius Varro
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"Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Let every fox take care of his own tail." »Italian 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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"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." »Portuguese Proverb
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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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"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul." »William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus"
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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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"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness." »Hannah More
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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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"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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"If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river." »Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate." »Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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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, when asked to describe radio
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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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"'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes." »Miguel de Cervantes
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