The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry
French Proverb
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A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
JEAN BURDEN Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and pros...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ...
VICTOR HUGO Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin...
SALIL JHA Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
DAVID HARE Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog
GERMAN PROVERB Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but ...
EDWARD YOUNG Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.
AMIT RAY In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one...
RICHARD M. NIXON Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking
JOHN WAIN I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoo...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and...
JOHN GEDDES Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. MENCKEN Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
SYLVIA PLATH For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose
SYLVIA PLATH Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat
ROY BLOUNT, JR. The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
MARIO CUOMO Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
ROBERT MORGAN Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
ROBERT GRAVES Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in pros...
BEVERLEY NICHOLS Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
ELIA KAZAN Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
JERRY B. JENKINS I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident...
SHELBY FOOTE Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written...
BEVERLY NICHOLS Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for har...
HORACE WALPOLE Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned t...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat still had eight lives left.
MARK WOODS I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
KAPIL SIBAL Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the ...
MARK TWAIN Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca...
MARK TWAIN Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the ...
MARK TWAIN Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is th...
MARK TWAIN But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The
dog is turned to his own vomit agai...
BIBLE The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has tu...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
Bu...
KAMAND KOJOURI When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poet...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Doesn't the mere fact of putting something into words itself involve exaggeration? Prose words, I me...
C.S. LEWIS I think the dog has learned some cat behavior. And the lion's learned some dog behavior, like wrestl...
AUTUMN NELSON Criticizing these reporters is like booing at the special olympics.
TRIUMPH THE INSULT DOG The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
TANA FRENCH The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER The cat is the mirror of his human's mind...the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.
WINIFRED CARRIERE Cat got your tongue, or dog got your tail?
SEAN CROSBY A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interv...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...
MARK TWAIN The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's w...
ALLEN GINSBERG A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indee...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The human animal bond doesn't stop with a dog or cat. It can be any type of animal.
BRIAN IANNESSA The days of 'boys will be boys' or, 'it's just a dog or a stray cat' are over.
DIANE BALKIN May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
H. P. LOVECRAFT In America there seems to be an idea that writing is one big cat-and-dog fight between the various p...
WILLIAM STYRON We still need cat cages, cat carriers, dog kennels, animal toys, food cat, dog, puppy and kitten. Wa...
CANDY CLARK We still need cat cages, cat carriers, dog kennels, animal toys, food — cat, dog, puppy and kitten...
CANDY CLARK We still need cat cages, cat carriers, dog kennels, animal toys, food cat, dog, puppy and kitten....
CANDY CLARK Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journ...
ALAN BREWER You own a dog; you feed a cat.
JIM FIEBIG The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollecte...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollecte...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE May is wonderful. She's the only one who was kind to Julian during that time.
CYNTHIA LENNON Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.
ANNE SEXTON We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction ...
JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON The gingham dog and the calico cat, Side by side on the table sat
EUGENE FIELD Curiosity may have killed the cat, but ignorance will kill the fool.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA the dog or animal may humanely be dispatched.
GARY GODDARD This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful.
GARY BRAGG Owning a cat is a lot like being an American tourist in a fancy French restaurant- you will be overc...
STEVE MARTIN Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
C.S. LEWIS The little dogs are allowed on the big-dog side, but the big dogs aren't allowed on the little-dog s...
HOLLY SWOAPE Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
EMILY DICKINSON My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w...
TAO LIN There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
GYORGY LIGETI
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FRENCH PROVERB Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers
FRENCH PROVERB It is overdoing the thing to die for love.
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FRENCH PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
FRENCH PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
FRENCH PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
FRENCH PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
FRENCH PROVERB Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
FRENCH PROVERB No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
FRENCH PROVERB Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
FRENCH PROVERB Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
FRENCH PROVERB Skeptics are never deceived.
FRENCH PROVERB People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
FRENCH PROVERB In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
FRENCH PROVERB Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
FRENCH PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
FRENCH PROVERB Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
FRENCH PROVERB It is impossible to overdo luxury
FRENCH PROVERB A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
FRENCH PROVERB Gratitude is the heart's memory.
FRENCH PROVERB Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
FRENCH PROVERB Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
FRENCH PROVERB If you want the truth, ask a child.
FRENCH PROVERB If the young only knew; if the old only could.
FRENCH PROVERB Honey is sweet but bees sting.
FRENCH PROVERB He that seeks trouble never misses.
FRENCH PROVERB Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
FRENCH PROVERB From word to deed is a great space.
FRENCH PROVERB Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
FRENCH PROVERB Better the foot slip than the tongue.
FRENCH PROVERB Anger is a bad counselor.
FRENCH PROVERB A crow is no whiter for being washed.
FRENCH PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
FRENCH PROVERB Don't bark if you can't bite.
FRENCH PROVERB In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
FRENCH PROVERB There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
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FRENCH PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies
FRENCH PROVERB The well traveled may lie with impunity
FRENCH PROVERB Only that which is provisional endures.
FRENCH PROVERB Fortune helps him that's willing to help himself.
FRENCH PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
FRENCH PROVERB Fine feathers make fine birds
FRENCH PROVERB Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
FRENCH PROVERB Every flow has its ebb.
FRENCH PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
FRENCH PROVERB It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
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FRENCH PROVERB Long on hair, short on brains
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FRENCH PROVERB A young doctor brings a green churchyard.
FRENCH PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
FRENCH PROVERB One bad general is better than two good ones
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FRENCH PROVERB One bee makes no swarm.
FRENCH PROVERB 'Tis good to go on foot when one hath a horse
FRENCH PROVERB Everything tempts the man who fears temptation
FRENCH PROVERB Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume
FRENCH PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
FRENCH PROVERB A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
FRENCH PROVERB To compare is not to prove
FRENCH PROVERB To compare is not to improve
FRENCH PROVERB He who is near the church is often far from God
FRENCH PROVERB He who survives will see the outcome.
FRENCH PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
FRENCH PROVERB Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
FRENCH PROVERB Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first
FRENCH PROVERB He who takes a partner takes a master
FRENCH PROVERB A bad sheerer never had a good sickle.
FRENCH PROVERB Appearances are deceiving.
FRENCH PROVERB When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it
FRENCH PROVERB To leave a place is to die a little
FRENCH PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance
FRENCH PROVERB Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face.
FRENCH PROVERB Who loves well, chastises well.
FRENCH PROVERB The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing).
FRENCH PROVERB Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical
FRENCH PROVERB Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old.
FRENCH PROVERB Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble
FRENCH PROVERB Everything goes to him who wants nothing
FRENCH PROVERB Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love
FRENCH PROVERB Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve.
FRENCH PROVERB Redheaded women are either violent or false, and usually are both
FRENCH PROVERB A surgeon should be young a physician old.
FRENCH PROVERB Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
FRENCH PROVERB A hungry clown is half mad.
FRENCH PROVERB Liars need good memories
FRENCH PROVERB Set your sail to the wind.
FRENCH PROVERB A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.
FRENCH PROVERB All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment
FRENCH PROVERB You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it
FRENCH PROVERB A late Easter, a long cold spring.
FRENCH PROVERB Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB I know by my own pot how the others boil.
FRENCH PROVERB A bad bush is better than an open field.
FRENCH PROVERB This creature is very wicked. He defends himself when attacked.
FRENCH PROVERB Ready money works great cures
FRENCH PROVERB A white wall is the fool's paper
FRENCH PROVERB One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
FRENCH PROVERB Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
FRENCH PROVERB Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
FRENCH PROVERB Fear is a great inventor.
FRENCH PROVERB Life is an onion and one peels it crying
FRENCH PROVERB A good hater; a good lover
FRENCH PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
FRENCH PROVERB He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear
FRENCH PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
FRENCH PROVERB God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home
FRENCH PROVERB He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
FRENCH PROVERB Life works out - but not as you expect it
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FRENCH PROVERB Love teaches even asses to dance
FRENCH PROVERB There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men
FRENCH PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
FRENCH PROVERB Where there's music there can be love
FRENCH PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
FRENCH PROVERB A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
FRENCH PROVERB There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich
FRENCH PROVERB A black hen lays a white egg.
FRENCH PROVERB No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give
FRENCH PROVERB Ill seed, ill weed
FRENCH PROVERB If it can lick, it can bite
FRENCH PROVERB In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
FRENCH PROVERB He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it
FRENCH PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
FRENCH PROVERB One may go a long way after one is tired
FRENCH PROVERB Everyone thinks his own burden heavy
FRENCH PROVERB A year of snow, a year of plenty.
FRENCH PROVERB Penny wise is often pound foolish.
FRENCH PROVERB Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do
FRENCH PROVERB Who is angry must be pleased again.
FRENCH PROVERB People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting
FRENCH PROVERB Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
FRENCH PROVERB Who punishes one threatens a hundred
FRENCH PROVERB It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
FRENCH PROVERB Don't find fault with what you don't understand
FRENCH PROVERB There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
FRENCH PROVERB A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind
FRENCH PROVERB One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB They are not free who drag their chains after them
FRENCH PROVERB It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach
FRENCH PROVERB Great talker, great liar.
FRENCH PROVERB And old rat is a brave rat.
FRENCH PROVERB To believe a thing impossible is to make it so
FRENCH PROVERB What was hard to endure is sweet to recall
FRENCH PROVERB Who never climbed, never fell.
FRENCH PROVERB Think much, speak little, and write less
FRENCH PROVERB He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
FRENCH PROVERB He who makes excuses, accuses himself
FRENCH PROVERB Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.
FRENCH PROVERB Forewarned, forearmed.
FRENCH PROVERB Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
FRENCH PROVERB Skeptics are never deceived
FRENCH PROVERB One turn serves another.
FRENCH PROVERB The first step binds one to the second.
FRENCH PROVERB There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy
FRENCH PROVERB I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
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