Phoenix Desert Dogs

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix, desert and/or dogs:

“A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Every human being, my dear, must thus be viewed according to what it is good for, for none of us, no not one, is perfect; and were we to love none who had imperfections, this world would be a desert for our love.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Like dogs in Mexico,
furless, sore, misshapen,
arrives from laborious nowhere
Agony.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)