The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
A coherent, short phrase that uses every letter of the alphabet. See pangram for more examples.
Read more about this topic: Filler Text
Famous quotes containing the words quick, brown, fox, jumps, lazy and/or dog:
“If the quick spirits in your eye
Now languish and anon must die;”
—Thomas Carew (15891639)
“They dragged you from homeland,
They chained you in coffles,
They huddled you spoon-fashion in filthy hatches,
They sold you to give a few gentlemen ease.”
—Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)
“Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winters walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I had let preadolescence creep up on me without paying much attentionand I seriously underestimated this insidious phase of child development. You hear about it, but youre not a true believer until it jumps out at you in the shape of your own, until recently quite companionable child.”
—Susan Ferraro (20th century)
“The lazy manage to keep up with the earths rotation just as well as the industrious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“But a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying downvery important traits in times like these. In fact, just as soon as a dog comes along who, in addition to these qualities, also knows when to buy and sell stocks, he can be moved right up to the boys bedroom and the boy can sleep in the dog house.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)