William Gilmore Simms Quotes

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

William Gilmore Simms

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• Dog
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• I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Country
  • Love
  • Dog

• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Future
  • Man
  • Dog

• Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Day
  • Dog
  • Same

• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Cat
  • Gloves
  • Mice

• But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Man
  • Black

• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • True
  • Car

• Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Small
  • Problem
  • Dog

• When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Dog
  • Kindness

• Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Needs
  • Dog
  • Lap

• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

  

  Saint Basil
  • Dog
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Dog

• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Real
  • Fighting

• No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Forever
  • Matter
  • Prosecutor

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Forever
  • Force
  • Dictator

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Dog

• Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end-when all else is dust-loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Dream
  • Daughter
  • Loyalty

• As for UFO's … I do believe there is a dimension that we don't understand. Not sure about little green martians, though.

  

  David Shuster
  • Believe
  • Green

• I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Ideas

• Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Forever
  • Dog
  • Expectations