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If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear. -- Benjamin Franklin
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. -- Jack Adams
Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral. -- David Letterman
Mark My Words Jack Frost...Before I Die I Am Going To Buy A Yacht And Sail Off To A Nice Warm & Sunny Paradise. Freeze And Abuse Someone's Else's Rear End...You Been Warned. -- Timothy Pina
It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy! -- Jessica Ennis
For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see. -- Will Oldham
I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge. -- Jennifer Lopez
The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard. -- Chuck Schumer
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. -- Mary Astell
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. -- Colin Powell
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. -- Walter Smith
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. -- Hermann Oberth
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. -- Chanakya
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it. -- Caitlin Moran
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. -- Toni Morrison
The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen. -- Willie Geist
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. -- John Podhoretz
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home. -- Jill Lepore
If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years? -- Sendhil Mullainathan
And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion. -- Reba McEntire
I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror! -- Dave Sitek
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. -- D. H. Lawrence
Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left. -- Joshua Chamberlain
To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence. -- Philip Yancey
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end. -- Susan Orlean
I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median. -- Apolo Ohno
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live. -- Helen Fisher
Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink. -- Michio Kaku
Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig. -- Michael Specter
I'm not much into rear window ethics. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Anything that's popular is a rear-view image. -- Marshall McLuhan
Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear. -- Jimmy Piersall
Male groupies gettin' shaky when I come from the rear. -- Redman
To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise. -- Lu Xun
Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink. -- Tom Curle
You will eat my rear rockets and like it! Ohhhh yeahhh! -- Randy Savage
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror. -- Richard Lewis
If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially. -- Joel Osteen
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Pat Patterson works at The Brisco Brothers bodyshop Yeah, he does rear-end work! -- Jim Ross
Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror. -- Margaret Atwood
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. -- Dudley Moore
When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. -- W. Edwards Deming
Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear. -- John Pope
When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction. -- Kyle Petty
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror. -- Anita Roddick
Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health. -- Tom Rath
You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror. -- Anita Roddick
When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus. -- Graham Hill
You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror. -- Catherine DeVrye
Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day. -- Darrell Royal
I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legs, head and rear end. -- Elizabeth Arden
In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear. -- Nikita Khrushchev
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. -- Marshall McLuhan
I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists. -- James Randi
Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are. -- Vikrmn
Think of the fears, hit 3rd gear no point in looking back in the rear view mirror. -- Matthew Donnelly
We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear. -- Arthur F. Burns
If you want to drive ahead, look through the windscreen and drive, not through the rear-view mirror! -- rajuda
Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear. -- Stewart Francis
REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress. -- Ambrose Bierce
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear -- Darrell Waltrip
What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end. -- Neal Schon
We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds. -- Cameron Conaway
When you were born and your mom saw your face and your rear end, she said "Oh! Siamesse Twins!" -- Jerry Lawler
When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear. -- Stephen Hawking
Challenges in the rear view appear smaller than they are.. But keep your spirits higher than the Challenges are. -- Vikrmn
Sadly, it has often been said that my rear is better than my front, so thank you very much indeed. -- Anton du Beke
It's OK to glance in the rear-view to see where you've been, but stay focused on where you are going! -- Mark Hewer
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough... -- Edward de Bono
All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times. -- Tim Fargo
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. -- William Bartram
[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble. -- Alan Caruba
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. -- Olive Schreiner
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. -- H. G. Wells
Hell, when I was in high school, a drive-by shooting meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window! -- Jeff Foxworthy
Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband. -- Bruce R. McConkie
I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?' -- Justin Moore
Agh-uhh!" the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn't completely cover his multicolored rear. -- Rick Riordan
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march... -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Apparently, the the only way to kill a lion is by rear naked choke. Personally, Iâ??d just kick it in the head. -- Bas Rutten
Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. -- Debbie Macomber
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. -- Robert Breault
When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open. -- Muriel Siebert
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. -- James Thurber
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. -- Mark Twain
Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear. -- Manfred von Richthofen
Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head. -- James Montgomery
Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot? -- Steve Kluger
In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual. -- Simon Blackburn
Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. -- Tim Allen
Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. -- Alexander Smith
It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men. -- Earle Birney
I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror... -- Max Beesley
I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. -- Phyllis Diller
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas. -- George Iles
The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention. -- Michel Faber
If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. -- Jim Steinman
The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later. -- Criss Jami
I suppose we all have a lil' inner or outer a-hole inside of us, just waiting for the right opportunity to rear their own beautiful buttholes. -- Jon Glaser
I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end. -- Cary Grant
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives. -- Seneca the Younger
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors. -- Deborah Sampson
I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere. -- LL Cool J
People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!' -- Mick Cornett
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring. -- Frans de Waal
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year. -- Lord Byron
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there. -- David Lee
We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray. -- Evan Sayet
Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop. -- Winston Churchill
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out. -- Ernie Pyle

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