Tail Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

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

I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.

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.

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.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

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

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.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

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.

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.

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.

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

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

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