Tail Wag Quotes

#1. 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.

Jean Craighead George

#2. In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

#3. Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Josh Billings

#4. The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

George Harrison

#6. And nobody wanted to tangle with my wolf from what I'd heard. She had a nasty temper and represented my alter ego with a proud wag of her tail.

Dannika Dark

#7. Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

Tacitus

#8. I was not considered a kid that would be successful in my career.

Tsai Ing-wen

#9. We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

Antonio Damasio

#10. We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

Maria Montessori

#11. 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?

Rudyard Kipling

#12. And forget all about the fact that my father is human and makes awful choices like the rest of us

Colleen Hoover

#13. I pray with my knees bow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I paint because I have no tail to wag.

Hermann Hesse

#16. He offers a subtle wag and paws at my leg. I reach down and pull him up to my lap and scratch his tummy. "How about you, buddy? You ready to get out of this dump?" Bernie Kosar thumps his tail against the bed.

Pittacus Lore

#17. Slow down, enjoy the moment, and remember to wag your tail each day.

Debbie White

#18. Do you think I'd start a war without knowing how to end it?"
"You've done it at least three times that I know of!"
"Ah sure, bring up the truth."
Caine and T'Passe

Matthew Woodring Stover

#19. I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Kinky Friedman

#20. You're kind of cute," he said with a handsome smirk. "If I had a tail, I'd wag it." "Leave my friend alone, Denver," Lexi scolded. "I don't wear a leash," he replied.

Dannika Dark

#21. Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

Empress Dowager Cixi

#22. Dwayne's only companion at night was a Labrador retriever named Sparky. Sparky could not wag his tail - because of an automobile accident many years ago, so he had no way of telling other dogs how friendly he was. He had to fight all the time. His ears were in tatters. He was lumpy with scars. ***

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#23. After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

Robert McCammon

#24. Wealth protects and animates art and literature, as the dew enlivens the fields." Nonsense! Wealth animates art and literature, as the whistle of the master animates the dog and makes him wag his tail.

Various

#25. Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Kinky Friedman

#26. But in general, who's to say what's not gay enough? And how do we even raise that question without raising the far more perilous one of, Is it too gay?

Christopher Rice

#27. Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

John B. S. Haldane

#28. One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. 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

#30. I suppose all couples feel this way at some point - that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you're with and think: Yes. It's you.

Colleen Oakley

#31. In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy ... to wit
the wag of a dog's tail.

Josh Billings

#32. If I sneezed, writers' vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.

Dennis Vickers