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  • ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

    Distance   Men   Squares  
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin
  • 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.

    Dog   Thinking   Doubt  
    Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

    Running   Dog   Men  
  • The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

    Dog   People   Political  
    Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage
  • You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

    T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin
  • Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

    Brain   Wags   Tongue  
    Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonFire: A Novel”, p.73, WaterBrook
  • Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

    Dog   War   Wags  
  • Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

    Smile   Laughter   Fall  
  • Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

    Stars   Army   Black  
    Source: aalbc.com
  • You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

    Judging   Wags   Damn  
    1677 Titus and Berenice, prologue.
  • I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.

    Buttons   Wags   Honest  
  • Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

    Hurt   Heart   Missing  
    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition
  • Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.

    Dog   Atheist   Moving  
  • The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

    Humor   Artist   World  
    E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”
  • We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

    Dog   Art   Horse  
    'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)
  • America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

    1949 Letter, 26 Oct.
  • I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

    "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.
  • The dog wags its tail only at living things. A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile, is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels, even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

    Dog   Butterfly   Cat  
  • Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.

    Eye   Men   Knowing  
  • ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."

    Art   Father   Names  
    Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.575, Library of America
  • 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.

    Dog   Mean   World  
  • Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

    Dog   Literature   World  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社
  • Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

    Tails   Wags   Becoming  
    "The Siege at Peking". Book by Peter Fleming, p. 226, 1959.
  • The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  • Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

    Army   Insulting   Church  
  • A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

    Angel   Men   Personality  
    "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 226, Journals IV A 87 (1843), 1978.
  • Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

    Wish   World   May  
    Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193
  • In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

    Thinking   Fire   Theatre  
  • Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption norms are local. It's not just the rich who spend more when they get more money. Everyone else does, too. The mansions of the rich may seem over the top to people in the middle, but the same could be said of middle-class houses as seen by most of the planet's seven billion people.

    Class   Luxury   People  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

    "The Boko Haram-Benghazi Lin" by Michael Hirsh, www.politico.com. May 12, 2014.
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