Tails Quotes

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

The very long tail of the future is already here.

It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

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

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

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

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

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

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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

Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.

People think I was born in top hat and tails.

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

Without a plan your kind of just like a dog chasing it's tail, your not getting anywhere.

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

I get Head and Tail like a quarter... in that order.

You had life by the tail and didn't know it.

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.