(218 quotes found)
“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
“How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!”
Lewis Carroll
“It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail”
Martin Luther
“FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first." --Orm Pludge”
Ambrose Bierce
“Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to”
Josh Billings
“Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail”
Irish Sayings
“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails”
Clarence Darrow
“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
W. H. Auden
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