Cat O Nine Tails Sayings

#1. I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#2. Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

Ray Davies

#3. William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears.

Gena Showalter

#4. Whipping, caning, chains, restraints, the cat-o'-nine tails and many other devices beloved of the Marquis de Sade are employed in more extreme sado-masochistic relationships. A spanking, though, s every girl knows, is more about pleasure than pain.

Chloe Thurlow

#5. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!

Charles Dickens

#6. Poverty and mistakes are setbacks but you should never allow them to make you give up on your dreams.

Timothy Pina

#7. A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

William James

#8. Your magnificent journey of today can only begin when you learn to let go of yesterday. Truly believe and you shall get there.

Timothy Pina

#9. When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

Kurt Wagner

#10. A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

Matthew Arnold

#12. Want to help brighten humanity? Inspire children. What we teach children today ... will help brighten our tomorrow's

Timothy Pina

#13. My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Danny DeVito

#14. The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

John Lyly

#15. This Christmas ...
Say a prayer for those in need. Be a friend to those in despair. Give all ... the gift of peace!

Timothy Pina

#16. Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes
and calls it his pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a niche market here - a hair lip.

Margot Robbie

#18. Stop focusing on what others keep doing wrong; Be positive. Be a light & influence for others. Make a difference in our world.

Timothy Pina

#19. It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

Stan Shih

#20. Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt
They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving
knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice?

Daniel Keyes

#21. The purpose of life is to find your purpose. Run a marathon, sail oceans, cross deserts, climb the highest mountain but find yours!

Timothy Pina

#22. For love ... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Virginia Woolf

#23. I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

Bill Bryson

#24. The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

John Ray

#25. Neither are the pig-skins, in common use to hold wine, and hung out in the sun in all directions, by any means ornamental, as they always preserve the form of very bloated pigs, with their heads and legs cut off, dangling upside-down by their own tails.

Charles Dickens

#26. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#27. Don't Give Up ... Just Always Keep Moving Forward In Your Life. Don't Ever Let Your Story End In Defeat!

Timothy Pina

#28. I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, but underneath, they'd be wearing the most exquisite brightly colored Dolce & Gabbana suits. They were like peacocks showing off their tails.

Huma Abedin

#29. Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Barbara Kingsolver

#30. Tony is waiting outside, his eyes crinkled into a smile. 'Come inside the house,' he says. He knows what I am feeling. And in I go, where the dogs lie flat on the kitchen floor, tails wagging, and the kettle is whistling, and the house is very warm.

Helen Macdonald

#31. I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, 'There goes our beach house.'

Elayne Boosler

#32. Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Heinrich Heine

#33. I've got my warrior name, too!" Crookedjaw?" How did you guess?" A purr rumbled in his throat. Beacuse your tail's still straight.

Erin Hunter

#34. We can't control what happens around us but we can control what happens inside us. Walk in positive energy...live in peace.

Timothy Pina

#35. Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

Laurie Nadel

#36. That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Martial

#37. When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#38. In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

Jose Carreras

#39. You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#40. We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Wilhelm Reich

#41. The cyclist hit me, and it's vile after my life ends in the afterlife. Lots of incense, resin, apes and giraffe-tails--all acquired tastes. I don't like that kind of thing.

Diane Williams

#42. May it please your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.

C.S. Lewis

#43. Everyone's on a journey trying to find their purpose in life. That lost horizon. You'll never truly be happy ... until you find it!

Timothy Pina

#44. Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.

Plutarch

#45. The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

Kathryn Lasky

#46. The deer scent the wolves and stand silent and watchful. They turn and leap off like ballerinas, their plume-like tails raised in alarm.

Kathleen Valentine

#47. The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#48. That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

Austin O'Malley

#49. It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Jonathan Ive

#50. What happened in 1603?" Grant asked, his mind still on Tyrrel. "We had the Scots tied to our tails for good." "Better than having them at our throats every five minutes.

Josephine Tey

#51. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails; I was heads.

Gabrielle Zevin

#52. Truth ... Overcome the valley of your despair and it will lead you onto some of the greatest roads of your life!

Timothy Pina

#53. We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

Joanne Harris

#54. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

#55. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Carlos Wallace

#56. Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are you talking about?" said Lief.
"Life and death.

Neal Shusterman

#57. I believe in the sun ... even if it isn't shining. I believe in Love ... even when I am alone and I will always believe in God Almighty ... even when He is silent!

Timothy Pina

#58. Being good to people is always better than giving any sermon. Being kind & caring to others speaks much greater than any words can ever do.

Timothy Pina

#59. The difference between people are their thoughts. Always use your thoughts to better your life & brighten our world!

Timothy Pina

#60. Keep doing the right things in life. Keep your faith and joy during tough times. Difficulty means you are being prepared for takeoff on the runways of life ahead of you!

Timothy Pina

#61. Life's a daily work in progress. Always move forward reaching new goals. Hit a road block? Keep calm & stay strong.

Timothy Pina

#62. We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails we have eyes
We were here before you fell
We will be here when you rise.

Neil Gaiman

#63. I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.

Alex Rocco

#64. Do yourself the ultimate favor ... Go out and make the rest of your life the best of your life.

Timothy Pina

#65. I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

Kate Walsh

#66. Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

S.J Perelman

#67. It's This Simple ...
LOVE, LOVE And LOVE Again. Unconditional LOVE Is The Inspiration That Everyone In This World Needs. Especially Our Children.

Timothy Pina

#68. The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details.

Anton Du Beke

#69. There is very little you can do to change others but you can certainly change your life in the process.

Timothy Pina

#70. Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.

Darrell Huff

#71. A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

Louis MacNeice

#72. I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#73. That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

John Ruskin

#74. We know very well what there is under other people's tails, but we cannot live without sniffing.

Miroslav Krleza

#75. You owe it to yourself to get rid of anything that is destroying & holding you back ferom progress. If it's not helping you grow...then let it go!

Timothy Pina

#76. Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.

Ryan Murphy

#77. 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

#78. I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.

Tommy Cooper

#79. She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.

Benjamin Franklin

#80. Do the things make you happy. Be with the one that makes you smile. Laugh as much as you breathe and live happy.

Timothy Pina

#81. STOP letting uncontrollable circumstances effect your happiness. Stay strong and don't quit, life will get better!

Timothy Pina

#82. In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself out of the former than you've become too full of yourself.

Ryan Cayne

#83. Like planes need the turbulence of wind to fly, humanity needs to embrace diversity to change for the better. It will be by seeing differences and learning to work through them ... that will finally help humanity find true peace.

Timothy Pina

#84. 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.

Ambrose Bierce

#85. Now it's our turn to kick some tail!

Falco

#86. You can sometimes give in and you should always try to give it your all ... but you must never give up!

Timothy Pina

#87. The earth is our home, the world is our playground ... created to better enhance our lives, whether for a short or long period of time in the pursuit and fulfillment of peace, love, liberty & happiness!

Timothy Pina

#88. I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

Emmanuel Petit

#89. I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

Fred Astaire

#90. Live your life so great that even the clouds will cry when you are gone!

Timothy Pina

#91. Mini cat poem for ISF kids:
William went high
Into the air
Furly had stepped
On the edge of
The board

Debby Feo

#92. Stop wasting your days and nights on others that will never appreciate you and all hat you do. Try wasting them on yourself instead!

Timothy Pina

#93. Let's get proof before a public hanging and not after it.

Timothy Pina

#94. Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

Jack Horner

#95. We have eyes and we have nerveses
We have tails we have teeth
You'll all get what you deserveses
When we rise from underneath.

Neil Gaiman

#96. I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

Fred Astaire

#97. Will all have troubles. But if you're grateful to be alive & positive enough to know you can change things around ... guess what? You will!

Timothy Pina

#98. Hands Should Never Be Used To Hit, Hurt or Abuse Anyone. They Should Always Be Used To Help Better our World Instead!

Timothy Pina

#99. In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.

George Antheil

#100. Laughter is always good for one's soul. It helps rid stress in many and a great healer for all.

Timothy Pina