100 Tail Quotes

Following is our list of tail quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about dog's tail.

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Famous Tail Quotes

Wherever the head goes, the tail will follow. — Filipino Proverbs

The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail — Irish Proverbs

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. - Max Eastman

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. — Max Eastman

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail. — Fran Lebowitz

Pull someone by the ears and his head will follow. — Indian Proverbs

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail. — Virginia Graham

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. — Abraham Lincoln

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic. — Arsene Wenger

The belly has no ears. — Plutarch

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same. — Heraclitus

A hair divides what is false and true. - Omar Khayyam

A hair divides what is false and true. — Omar Khayyam

If you get all tangled up, just tango on. — Al Pacino

Whip the saddle and give the mule something to think about it. — Bulgarian Proverbs

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk. — Robert Duvall

Drop face, soft belly. The face is usually wearing a mask to signal to others. The belly is often chronically tensed in a fight-or-flight response. — Naval Ravikant

Short Tail Quotes

  • When you look at an elephant, look at its tail. When you look at a girl, look at her mother. — Thai Proverbs
  • Don’t ignore the small things — the kite flies because of its tail. — American Proverbs
  • It is easy to cut the tail of a dead wolf. — Albanian Proverbs
  • Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. — Kinky Friedman
  • The snake moves, erasing its tracks with its tail. — Albanian Proverbs
  • Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The magpie wants a lot, but its tail can’t carry it all. —
  • The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. — Rabindranath Tagore
  • Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall. — Janette Rallison
  • A cat hunts with its tail. — Turkish Proverbs

Tail Image Quotes

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

Ponytail Quotes

I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail. — Selena Gomez

When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite "milkmaid" braid. — Tracee Ellis Ross

It's not easy when someone pulls your ponytail. — David Beckham

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted. — Tina Fey

I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheesebur ger. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

I like wet hair and sweatpants. I like sneakers and ponytails. — Chris Evans

My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup. — Kristin Bauer van Straten

I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail. — Dave Grohl

Yeah, I love ponytails. I'm a wash-and-go girl. But, oh yeah, I like to whip it. — Britney Spears

For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark. — Bettie Page

Dog's Tail Quotes

No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. — Gene Hill

To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy. — Jon Winokur

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. — Mark Twain

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend. — June Carter Cash

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art? — Rudyard Kipling

I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through, With love unspeakable and true. — John Kendrick Bangs

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. — Karel Capek

Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark. — Jeremy Clarkson

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice. — Smokey Robinson

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. — Josh Billings

Heads Or Tails Quotes

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition. — David Lynch

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is. — E. C. Myers

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that. — Anthony Hopkins

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. — Barbara Kingsolver

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. — Spencer Tracy

I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails? — David Brooks

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. — Jonathan Swift

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager? — Blaise Pascal

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. — W. C. Fields

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More Tail Quotes

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. — Desmond Tutu

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. — Larry Bird

It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances. — Rabindranath Tagore

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly. — Erma Bombeck

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. — Herman Melville

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. — John Ruskin

If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you. — Dan Gable

Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature - for example, the peacock's tail. — Gad Saad

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on. — John Henry Carver

"Welcome to our camp!" Blackstar called, beckoning them with his tail. "Rest here and take your pick of the fresh-kill pile." "Who are you and what have you done with Blackstar?" Lionblaze muttered. — Erin Hunter

A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior. — Jedediah Purdy

Longer content helps you rank better for your target keyword and brings in more long-tail traffic… a win-win. — Brian Dean

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. — LeBron James

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff. — Fergus Henderson

The radical snake always ends up eating its tail. ISIS kills all Muslims who are not Muslim enough. Progressives denounce all those who are not progressive enough. — Gad Saad

To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman. — Hermione Gingold

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. — Morris Sheppard

The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling. — Ivan Turgenev

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 Diefenbaker

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him. — Willie Morris

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. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

My cat speaks sign language with her tail. — Robert A. M. Stern

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. — Elizabeth Warren

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur. — Jostein Gaarder

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. — Chanakya

The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren't getting the results we seek. — Joe Vitale

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