Quotes About Tail

Let us always remember Abraham Lincoln's undeservedly neglected riddle: How many legs has a dog got if you call a tail a leg? The answer, said Lincoln, and he was right, is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

And the beavers. They lived in big dams like brownstones or Tudors in Boston or New York. Whole cities of them, gathering up twigs, mixing mortar, patting it down with their tails, all split up into little groups of labor. Smart animals, the beavers. Some of them grew to five feet tall, but they've all been killed off already, the first to go when the white hunters arrived. Well

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

Don't forget that a tail is a tail; it isn't just a Little Bit Extra at the back.

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

They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. And as I looked at the map of it in a shop-window, it fascinated me as a snake would a bird—a silly little bird.

Gentry crept out. There, stuck in the slime a few feet away, was a huge unexploded bomb. It was about the size of a household refrigerator, shaped like a cigar, with its tail fins sticking up. A large pig slowly waddled across the barnyard and began licking it. On

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

There are four rules for shadowing: Keep behind your subject as much as possible; never try to hide from him; act in a natural manner no matter what happens; and never meet his eye.

There is no hidden meaning to life ... looking for one is our problem solving brain chasing its tail

Russia might be characterized as a wicked beast of a nation, but it was a very large beast, and sometimes it thrashed its tail.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.

Tsk, tsk," I said, not moving at all. "Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail. Put it down and don't be silly, Joe.

I gave the dog a last scratch and he smiled and wagged his heavy tail. He didn't look like a dog that stole and ate children. He looked like a dog that might steal chocolate-covered Easter eggs.

Like a shark beneath deep water, unease flicked its tail.

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

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

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.

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

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.

A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

Talk to the tail, vamp," he growled.