Tails Quotes

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

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

I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.

You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, 'There goes our beach house.'

'I've got my warrior name, too!' - 'Crookedjaw?' - 'How did you guess?' A purr rumbled in his throat. 'Beacuse your tail's still straight.'

Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

Tuck in your tail, little duck.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

What is easily the most dangerous spot cats choose for sleeping? Beneath our feet-sprawled out in hallways or in doorways, tails predictably extended just to be stepped on.

That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

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.

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

I myself often feel that I have a tail in my pants. And I can see that many people do it as well, I am sure some of them simply wrap it around themselves.

So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.