Bull Quotes
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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.
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
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).
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
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.
They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.
ray nagin— Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL, September 1, 2005[1]
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
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).
A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race. The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 7 (Phineas Redux (1874))
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).
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)
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
"The dog may be man Horse, donkey, too But the bull - Man can not Anytime."
— Smriti Shesh (Poetry Collection), Kathyaroop Books, 2002.
Before the throne was something resembling a glassy sea, like crystal. In the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures that were full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature was like a young bull, and the third living creature had a face like a man’s, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.
— Revelation 4:6–7, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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)
No solemn sanctimonious face I pull, Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious; Nor study in my sanctum supercilious, To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a bull.
thomas hood— Ode to Rae Wilson; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
John bull was beat at Waterloo! They’ll swear to that in France.
winthrop mackworth praed— Waterloo.
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.
