Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

A burnt dog dreads the fire.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Growing up, when I'd throw out the trash, I'd toss it and dart because all the cats would come running. That's why I still don't like cats.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

The scalded head feares cold water.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Burnt child fire dredth.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be all right.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.