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Quotes About Tail

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
~ Arnold Toynbee
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
He went back through the wet wild woods, waving his wild tail, and walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.
~ Rudyard Kipling
the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.
~ Margaret Mitchell
"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
~ Lewis Carroll
I'm stuck fighting. (Acheron) You're stuck fighting. But you're welcome to come share my beach any time you get tired of the brawl. (Savitar) Save me a spot. If this blows up in my face, I'll be back with my tail forever tucked between my legs. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Will glanced down at the dog, who was looking up at him, her tail moving slowly. It seemed she was quite content to see the arrow hit Buttle anywhere at all, he mused.
~ John Flanagan
you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...
~ John Geddes
The place of poison in a snake is the tooth, in a fly the head, in a scorpion the tail but the wicked has poison in his entire body.
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
The geometry of a peacock's tail is more aerial: The eyes in a peacock's spread tail are situated at the intersecting point of a double cluster of spirals, that are apparently Archimedean spirals.
~ Gaston Bachelard
First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail
~ Ally Carter
Take the tail of the female tuna—and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.
~ Mark Kurlansky
When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.
~ John R. Erickson
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.
~ George Orwell
Raras vezes falava, e em geral quando o fazia era para emitir uma observação cínica — para dizer, por exemplo, que Deus lhe dera uma cauda para espantar as moscas, e no entanto seria mais do seu agrado não ter nem a cauda nem as moscas.
~ George Orwell
God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have no tail and no flies
~ George Orwell
Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. You know, old fellow, he once told Martin,if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!
~ Georgette Heyer
Blister me if I can make head or tail of this coil. Vidal's damned lackeys are as close as a lot of oysters. Y'know, Léonie, the boy's a marvel, so he is. I never could keep a servant who didn't blab all my affairs to the world.
~ Georgette Heyer
Watch wagged his tail. Benny looked down at him. "No, Watch," he said. "Chocolate is not one of your favorite things. Chocolate is very bad for dogs, remember? You like dog biscuits
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
A dog's tail wags to communicate. You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments. Hume diagnosed the problem long
~ Jonathan Haidt
But I do not think we can wait for painting. This place is dangerous for us. Perlain is already impatient with us. I can see it by the way he lashes his tail.
~ Emily Rodda
I was tired of listening to your belly growling," Squirrelflight mewed, her tail curling up in amusement. "I reckon they could hear it back in ThunderClan.
~ Erin Hunter