Hayes McClerkin quotes

“If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.”
-- Hayes McClerkin

#Dog Quotes #Fire Quotes #Rabbits Quotes

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

“I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.”

“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 ...”

“We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”

“God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (1917). “The Rise of David Levinsky: A Novel”

“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”

“Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.”

“This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.”

“Me?" All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the scared-rabbit feeling faded.”

“You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist”