Tail Quotes

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.'

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.