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So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine. ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
— James Clavell, in Noble House (1981).
Truth, Sir, is a cow, that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
— 1763 Of sceptics. Remark, 21 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.
Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.
john f. kennedy— President Kennedy (mis)quoted a bit of doggerel by the torero Domingo Ortega (as translated by the English poet Robert Graves) in remarks during a 16 October 1962 Presidential Backgrounder before the National Foreign Policy Conference for Editors and Radio-TV Public Affairs Broadcasters ("Presidential Backgrounder 16 October 1962 #50," Box 134, Classified Background Briefing Material Series, Pierre Salinger Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library).The original poem goes this way: Bullfight critics ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous Plaza full
But only one is there who knows
And he's the man who fights the bull.
So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine. ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
— James Clavell, in Noble House (1981)
In a bull market the trend of prices, of course, is decidedly and definitely upward. Therefore whenever a stock goes against the general trend you are justified in assuming that there is something wrong with that particular stock.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Red Dog smiled. 'I would like you to meet my friends Mr Sitting bull, Mr Poisoned Buffalo, and Chief Running Skunk-Backwards.''Sitting bull's a name I know,' Yogi remarked, shaking hands.'Oh, I'm not one of those Sitting Bulls,' Mr Sitting bull said.
ernest hemingway— Part 3, Ch. 2
You ought to take the bull between the teeth.
— Recalled on his death, 31 Jan1974.
Jeremiah was a bull frogWas a good friend of mineI never understood a single word he saidBut I helped him a-drink his wineAnd he always had some mighty fine wine.
hoyt axton— Joy to the World · YouTube video · YouTube video
He is a powerful fellow, with a bull neck and a huge voice - a born leader...if there is trouble, mark my words! You will hear more of Bevin!
Ernest Bevin— David Lloyd George said to Lord Riddell (1 March 1919), J. M. McEwen (ed.), The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923 (London: The Athlone Press, 1986), p. 258.
"Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!" he said. "It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God, Mr Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!"
emily brontë— Heathcliff (Ch. XI).
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke,In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure,In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak,In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.
thomas kyd— Act II, sc. i.
You can't milk a bull. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1040)
— "You can pull and pull, but you can't milk a bull."
— Thomas Froncek (1970). The Horizon book of the arts of Russia. American Heritage Pub. Co.. p. 144.
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
warren buffett— 1997 Chairman's Letter
Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.
dinah maria mulock— Ch. 9. (A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858))
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
benjamin graham— Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 35
Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
robert jordan— Old saying in Randland
I've had enough of this place where they stuff you full of bull and then hunt you down and kill you every day.
r. a. lafferty— Crewman Humphrey on Valhal, Ch. 2
Bullfight critics row on row Crowd the vast arena full But only one man’s there who knows And he's the man who fights the bull.
— Quoted in a letter to the editor by Representative F. Edward Hébert, chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, who said, "President Kennedy was fond of quoting some lines from the Spanish poet García Lorca". Reported in The Washington Post (April 11, 1971), p. C7. These lines are believed not to be García Lorca's.
I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.
theodore roosevelt— Letter to Mark Hannah (27 June 1900).
Jeremiah was a bull frog, was a good friend of mine. I never understood a single word he said but I helped him a-drink his wine. And he always had some mighty fine wine.
hoyt axton— In Joy to the World (1971).
The trend has been established before the news is published, and in bull markets bear items are ignored and bull news exaggerated, and vice versa.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian bull.
Tennyson— 1855 Maud, pt.1, sect.6, stanza 6, l.232-3.
L—d! said my mother, what is all this story about? — A Cock and a bull, said Yorick — And one of the best of its kind I ever heard.
Laurence Sterne— Book IX, Ch. 33.
I feel like a bull Moose.
theodore roosevelt— On landing from Cuba with his Rough Riders, after the Spanish War.
The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John bull!
lord byron— Letter to Thomas Moore (22 June 1821)
" Pan again!" said Dr. bull irritably. "You seem to think Pan is everything." "So he is," said the Professor, "in Greek. He means everything." "Don't forget," said the Secretary, looking down, "that he also means Panic."
— G. K. Chesterton in The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), Ch. XIV : The Six Philosophers
"You will not find him dead easily. If he has been tipped out of the car, we shall find him rolling as a colt rolls in a field, kicking his legs for fun ." "Clashing his hoofs," said the Professor. "The colts do, and so did Pan ." "Pan again!" said Dr. bull irritably. "You seem to think Pan is everything ." "So he is," said the Professor, "in Greek. He means everything." "Don't forget," said the Secretary, looking down, "that he also means Panic ."
— G. K. Chesterton, in The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), Ch. XIV : The Six Philosophers
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Pard, or a Wolf, or a bull?
— Aristophanes, Clouds. Gerard's translation. (Compare Hamlet, III. 2).
It don't seem hardly right, John, When both my hands was full, To stump me to a fight, John, Your cousin, too, John bull! Ole Uncle S. sez he, "I guess
james russell lowell— We know it now," sez he,
"The lion's paw is all the law,
* According to J. B.,
* That's fit for you an' me."
— James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (1848), Jonathan to John, Stanza 1.
