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"Let every fox take care of his own tail." »Italian Proverb
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"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others." »Hazlitt
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"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." »Portuguese Proverb
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"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to." »Josh Billings
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"High living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." »Mark Twain
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"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag." »W.H. Auden
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"If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week." »Will Rogers
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"There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." »W. C. Fields
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success." »T. T. Munger
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"High thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes
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"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place." »John George Diefenbaker
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"A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,
a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all,
the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him,
the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing." »Thomas Nashe
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"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
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." »Arnold Toynbee
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"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." »Princess Anne
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*" »The Hitopadesa
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"The best strategy to making money in the stock market is to buy an asset before it becomes too popular. You buy low and sell high, you do not buy high and hope you will sell higher. This is not an investment strategy it is speculation." »Med Jones
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"Commodities have shown a high correlation to inflation, especially in high inflation periods. In addition to diversification, the commodities asset class may also protect investment portfolios against an expected inflation or a declining local currency." »Med Jones
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail." »Fran Lebowitz
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." »Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
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"'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." »Albert Einstein
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"The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." »Albert Einstein
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"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another." »Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
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"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson
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"Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself." »Shannon Miller
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"Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss." »Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
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