Tail Quotes

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

Learn, Cat, Carries

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

Dog, Call, Four

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

Dog, Call, Five

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

Cannot, Learn, Hold

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

Place, Knows, Wit

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu

Injustice, Appreciate, Side

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

Someone, Winner, Off

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

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

Dog, Shall, Golden

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

Blame, Pin, Donkeys

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.
Groucho Marx

Understand, Find, Why

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields

Time, Face, Situation

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

Love, Money, Him

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

Love, Music, Trying

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

Dog, Wear, Suggest

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.
Chuck Norris

Change, Control, America

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

Great, Everything, Him

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

Good, Money, Pretty

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.
LeBron James

Football, Team, Knew

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

Love, Money, May

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

Joy, Times, Possessed

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
T. E. Lawrence

Value, News, Tin

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

Stuck, Sting, Straw

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

Through, After, Chance

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.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Life, Mother, Everything

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

Music, Language, Needs

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

Remember, Worked

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
John Podhoretz

War, Care, Victory

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

Found, Enter, Invited

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

Stubborn, Lion, Foreign

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