Tail Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.'

We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

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.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

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.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

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 claws.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.