“The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail”
Russian Proverb
“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
“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails”
Clarence Darrow
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits”
Charles Darwin
“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its paws”
Charles Baudelaire
“If we can squeeze a few more runs out of the tail and then bowl well first thing in their innings it could be very interesting. That's not a bad total and it could be an even better one if we bowl well tomorrow - it's certainly not the end of the world as far as we're concerned.”
Ricky Ponting
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail”
Clive James
