John R. Erickson quotes

“When I'm alone, I'm in the company of the most interesting dog I know.”
-- John R. Erickson

Source : John R. Erickson (1993). “The case of the vampire cat”, Viking Books

#Dog Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Company Quotes

“I'm flatulent in many languages.”
-- John R. Erickson

Source : John R. Erickson (1993). “The Phantom in the Mirror”, Maverick Books (TX)

#Language Quotes

“When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.”
-- John R. Erickson

#Tails Quotes #Noses Quotes #Boots Quotes

“Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.”
-- John R. Erickson

#Tombstone Quotes #Made Quotes #Granite Quotes

“Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.”
-- John R. Erickson

#Cat Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.”
-- John R. Erickson

Source : John R Erickson, John R. Erickson (1988). “The original adventures of Hank the Cowdog”, Texas Monthly Press

#Hard Work Quotes #Way Quotes #Beats Quotes

“When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.”
-- John R. Erickson

#Sick Quotes #Germs Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.”
-- John R. Erickson

#Sun Quotes #Come Up Quotes #Convinced Quotes

“If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too.”
-- John R. Erickson

#Wilder Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.”

“Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

“Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite”

“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”

“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.”

“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”