Tail Quotes

446 Tail quotes by 345 unique authors

A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's… — Jerry Smith
I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail. — Rona Barrett
Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might… — Terry Pratchett
The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap. — Ali Khamenei
The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;… — Ivan Turgenev
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. — Hilaire Belloc
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is… — Anne, Princess Royal
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's… — William Butler Yeats
A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth… — Thomas Nashe
From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them,… — Louis Pullig De Gouy
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I… — Edmund de Waal
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab… — John F. Kennedy
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of… — Ambrose Bierce
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the… — Jonathan Haidt
You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments. — Jonathan Haidt
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a… — Al Gore
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of… — Hunter S. Thompson
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes… — Anne Michaels
Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail… — Larry Coryell
People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail. — Unknown Author
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all —… — Charles Farrar Browne
Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth. — Thomas Hood
I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world… — Joe R. Lansdale
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape. — John Philip Sousa
I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our… — David Einhorn

Who Wrote These Tail Quotes

345 authors contributed a total of 446 Tail Quotes, led by these top contributors: