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

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.
Larry Bird

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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.
Judge Mills Lane

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

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

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.
Slobodan Milosevic

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

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

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

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!
Davy Crockett

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

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.
Mike Royko

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.
Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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.
Charles Baudelaire

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.
Christopher Walken

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
Sting