Bulls quotes
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"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!"
"To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth."
"The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter."
"A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends."
"Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman."
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"Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them."
"I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy."
"A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent."
"There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests."
"It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself."
"When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly."
"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."
"What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies."
"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
"[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop."
"I shop like a bull - I charge everything!"
"I feel as fit as a bull moose."
"If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him."
"Money talks, and bulls*** walks."
"I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible."
"The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me."
"As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it."
"I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself."
"A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook."
"In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull."
