John R. Erickson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dog #Interesting #Company
I'm flatulent in many languages.
-- John R. Erickson

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

#Tails #Noses #Boots
Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.
-- John R. Erickson

#Tombstone #Made #Granite
Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.
-- John R. Erickson

#Cat #Bravery #Rewards
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

#Hard Work #Way #Beats
When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.
-- John R. Erickson

#Sick #Germs #Truth Is
I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.
-- John R. Erickson

#Sun #Come Up #Convinced
If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too.
-- John R. Erickson

#Wilder #Ifs

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.
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 isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
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.
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.

John R. Erickson famous quotes

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