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«If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.»

Author: Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, Philosopher) | About: Cats, Dogs | Keywords: fond, fonder, fondest, get the jump, jumps, jump on, jump out, jump up, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, warmer

«Every baby needs a lap.»

Author: Henry Robin | Keywords: lap, Lapped, lapping, laps

«There is a lull to the very air of the place, the creaking of the tall teak forests, the lapping of the canals, the gentle swaying of the little kingfishers who sit like neat blue idols on almost every telegraph wire.»

Author: James Morris | Keywords: canal, canals, creaking, creaks, forests, idols, lapping, lull, lulled, lulling, lulls, neat, swaying, teak, telegraph, telegraph wire, The Telegraph, wire

«[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.»

Author: Luther Cressman | Keywords: Against A, alkali, August, cave, devils, flats, Great Lakes, lake, lapping, look out, look out on, sandal, sandals, swirl, swirled, swirling, Swirls, wearer, wearers

«I've been in more laps than a napkin.»

Author: Mae West (Actress) | Keywords: Lapped, lapping, laps, napkin, napkins

«I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash, and that was the attitude of it, fuck off.»

Author: Johnny Rotten (Musician) | Keywords: fuck, fuck off, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, leash, leashed

«And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: gather, gathered, gourd, gourds, herbs, lap, lapping, laps, pot, pottage, shred, shredded, thereof, The Field, The Herbs, The Vines, vine

«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»