A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
Chinese Proverb
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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Davy Crockett
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Josh Billings
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
Geoff has played in the Premier League - and proved himself. He was one of West Brom's key players at the tail-end of last season. They were in really dire straits with just a few months to go and it was Geoff and the other experienced players at the club that pulled them through that situation and kept them alive.
Kenny Cunningham
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.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Real simple, we didn't like getting our backsides beat by the Evil Genius. I walked away from Jacksonville with my tail between my legs more times than I care to remember.
Sonny Seiler
My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
Robert A. M. Stern
Violence, arrests, pressures, tailing and threats are the daily lot of the foreign correspondent.
Robert Menard
He's starting to develop a shot. He's a real athletic kid. He's working his tail off.
Lance Jacobs
He's worked his tail off to give himself a chance. He's accountable and dependable. He's played more than I ever thought he would have when he came here as a freshman.
Paul Chryst
The referee, for an outlet stretch pass, will now have to get from one end to the other in order to cover the net in a time frame that is not realistic, so there will be an added responsibility on the front linesman to cover for the referee as he's high-tailing it down the ice to cover at the net, ... In our games you're going to see more linesmen covering the net than you've ever seen before.
Ted Baker
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz
He's (Pearson) been here before, and he's very popular. He will bring a python, whose name is Dragon. Dragon is a huge snake (about 18 feet). It takes three grown men to lift the snake in its box. When he (Pearson) pulls a piece of his tail from the box, everyone starts backing up.
Gina Mason
There is the potential for the tail end of the storm system to swing into the area for the end of the week.
Bafil Newmerzhycky
It will start out mostly as rain, end up as snow at the tail end of it.
Jim Fischer
As we move closer to spring we catch the tail-ends of these central Pacific cold fronts and they hold together as fronts over us.
Gregory Hall
And his long coats. He does an ankle length Russian broad-tail topped with chinchilla, and a great black cashmere coat that's lined in black, sheared mink ... throughout his whole collection, you can see the hand of the couturier.
Stanley Schulman
I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.
John Bloom
We had someone come the other day, and Alice was meeting two dogs and wagging her tail, and she came up to this person very quickly. She is still cautious and a little shy but makes friends quickly. She is confident, healthy, happy, social and loyal. She comes immediately when called, can be walked off-leash, knows basic commands and is very well-behaved. It's so encouraging.
Christine Martin
You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you can't buy the wag of its tail.
Josh Billings
We're not just going to give this away and run out of town with our tail between our legs.
Mark Spano
She kept it in her upstairs bedroom. It would hang in a closet by its tail.
Alice Gilborn
You put something like that directly into the wind at such an angle and it's going to fail. In the process of failing, instead of just coming off the airplane, it pulled the tail up and pulled the nose down.
John Nance
We're at the tail end of earnings season, and the ones I've seen today are up nicely. In general, the numbers have come in better than expected across the board and it's been a good quarter, (though) definitely choppy.
Ryan Crane
When they get some stick-backs, it's the same thing. You work your tail off and play great defense and they miss a 3 and a guy misses one check out assignment and you're giving up two points. It's 30 seconds of hard work down the drain on the defensive end.
Marty Chandler
Our chances for rain are diminishing and it looks like that will hold. We're sort of at the tail end, not out of the woods yet. But overall we're doing pretty good.
Robert D. Ballard
The tail is definitely wagging the dog here.
Michael Donovan
I don't see what can stop it. We don't see any point where it will tail off.
Maurice Flanagan
If you slept too many hours, you didn't even know it. We barely caught the tail end of it.
Stan Wasowski
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 of us who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.
Hermione Gingold
I was busting my tail down the line because I knew it was going to be a bang-bang play at first.
Dave Roberts
The comprehensive plan is supposed to be a guideline. The plan is supposed to be the dog and the developer the tail. We have a situation where the tail is wagging the dog.
Jim Holland
This birding tail is one of the reasons the governor and I decided that 2006 would be the year of outdoors Alabama.
Lee Sentell
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.
Bo Diddley
It's going to be like sucking on a tail pipe for about four hours, with the smog conditions and the altitude.
Steve Bush
This was just a good, old-fashioned tail kicking. We came out strong in the first half, then we started playing their game. They got us to force up shots and hurry our game.
Dan Starkey
It was Lincoln who said that if you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? The answer is four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one. And calling a civil contract between consenting adults a marriage does not make it a marriage.
Tom Mcclintock
A lot of people come here, and when they open the (front) door the dog starts running and tail-wagging.
Dave Foley
She's doing great. She's all shaved and has staples, but she's wagging her tail.
Mary Stazzone
The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.
Jean Claude Duvalier
I fought the odds all the way growing up and I'm still not the biggest guy around. But I work my tail off at what I do and it all paid off that day. It was July 4th and I got called to the big leagues. It was a special time for me, my family and friends.
Kevin Hooper
We've been in a lot of close games during the tail end of the season that came down to last-second shots, free throws, things like that. I definitely think pressure situations aren't anything new to us. I think we're learning how to handle that better as a team and hopefully that will help us.
Ashley Davis
Stanfill put him on his tail four or five times, ... Steve was a great athlete, confident and cocky, but we put tremendous pressure on him. That was the best way I knew to stop the quarterback.
Vince Dooley
It's so cute. There's a little brown dress, a tail out the back, it's made of chiffon material and there are ears like a lion.
Janice Lawson
The back tail lights and the bumper and that's about it on the car that got hit.
Bryan Taylor
We are pleased to be at the forefront in producing what has become the fastest-growing leisure sport activity in the world, ... We look forward to taking the tiger by the tail and moving this marketing phenomenon to the next level -- television.
Dick Clark
What made me realize it wasn't a seal, I saw the whole body and the tail.
Jacquie Small
Jay is one of those guys who lead by example. He hustles and he absolutely works his tail off.
Tom Nadeau
The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.
William H. Gass
I told her she played her tail off. She had some huge baskets and some huge steals that turned this game around.
Jill Phillips
There are always critics. Out of high school there are people who say you can't go on and play. I came here, I worked my tail off and proved everybody wrong who said I couldn't play here.
Jake Sinclair
Just follow our lead. They'll eventually lose steam and turn tail. You just have to turn your back on them.
Kurt Mayer
It might come from a merging galaxy, either gas and stars, or even another black hole falling into an existing black hole. It might also be a large amount of the hot X-ray emitting gas that cooled to low temperature. Either way, it would represent the tail end of galaxy formation.
Paul Nulsen
We circled what seemed like an eternity trying to decide whether we should stay there, whether we should go someplace safe, ... Finally, my tail gunner, Master Sgt. Byron Allen, spotted our lead aircraft on the ground, their main rotor still turning, so they were probably all right.
Barbara Groves
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
Charles Farrar Browne
In some cases, people are not intentionally causing damage. They think they can jump up and take a picture, and they break off the tail. The sculptures aren't created for that. They're to look at.
Jaene Miranda
If we had lost tonight, it's basically like Pin the Tail on the Donkey, when there's one kid left and you know he's going to hit the spot. You don't want to get to that point. It's always nice to beat a great ballclub.
Glenn Wilson
Exports are thriving, but will tail off at the end of the year as the world economy weakens.
Andreas Scheuerle
Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success because of it.
Dana Altman
Wherever they want me, I'll work my tail off to be the best I can at that position.
Ty Wigginton
Everybody loves the cackle of the rooster, the colors, the long tail.
Keith Gilbertson
(Johnson) goes out and works his tail off every day. It's as hard as I've seen a guy practice, every day, and he gives it to you on game day.
Bryan Robinson
If their tail falls off -- it's only held on by a tiny muscle -- they can't turn over if upside down.
Lisa Balabanow
She'll work her tail off and she'll get better. She's had some hard knocks this year and had some pretty easy times, too. Hopefully, she'll grow from that.
Gordy Presnell
We communicated to the patients that the carbon monoxide they inhale from smoking cigarettes is the same poisonous gas that comes out of the tail pipe of their car.
Belinda Borrelli
He'll just sleep less. He's going to work his tail off for us.
Mike Rosenthal
Economics should always be paramount over tax considerations. Don't let the tax tail wag the investment dog.
Robert Mason
How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
We're always trying to get out and talk to people about this program. I came up here when I was in eighth grade and worked out. I got my tail thrown around up here, but I learned a lot, and we try to get other kids to come here.
Mack Lewnes
I've got a tiger by the tail and I don't know what to do with it.
Pat Mooney
I really busted my tail in (the 1,600). I got a PR (personal record) by about five seconds. This meet really motivated me.
Anna Jarvis
It was him against that pitcher, and I could see that he wanted to compete and that he wanted to win the game. He just pitched his tail off.
Lawrence Scully
I've been scared all day long. Any team Buster Harvey coaches is going to play their tail off, and we were a bit flat emotionally. In the first half we had no flow.
Brad Underwood
The hottest red carpet looks are going to be swept off the face. Or a little slung bun or sexy pony tail. But definitely dressed up with some hot jewels.
Marc Anthony
I just hope it wasn't a one-off and that we're going to tail off again after this. Everything seemed to work well. I hope it lasts.
Klaus Augenthaler
You could barely see. ... A truck was right on my tail. The next thing I see, I was driving onto a split trailer full of meat.
Joe Jackson
It's a neat deal. He's brought some leadership this year and is working his tail off.
Larry Krystkowiak
If they fly any coastal flight, I know. I can also find anybody in the world within 24 hours. I guarantee it. If they don't mask the tail number on a private plane, I'll find it.
Frank Griffin
We have a relationship of cheerful antagonism. I enjoy twisting his tail and he enjoys wagging his finger at me.
Stephen Bayley
I wish all the great things for Kyle. He's a friend, but I'm working my tail off to play too.
Kirby Freeman
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
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. To Rome said Nero: 'If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn.' To Nero Rome replied: 'Pray do your worst, 'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first.' Orm Pludge.
Ambrose Bierce
[Prosecutor Mike Allen said the county protected its values and made no concessions to the Flynt.] He didn't win. He lost, ... He turned tail and ran.
Mike Allen
I worked my tail off, and I know I have the athletic ability to play at a higher level. Everything's been building up for this since the Highland Rockets (in the third grade), and I've gone along for the ride.
Michael Toudouze
A dog wags its tail with its heart.
Martin Buxbaum
[Fitzgerald charged that Libby told FBI agents and the grand jury that] he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another ... at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter.
Valerie Plame
You talk about a kid that worked his tail off in the weight room and in conditioning and got himself academically sound.
Pete Richardson
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee
It's very, very disappointing. The kid worked his tail off. It's just a freak thing.
Brian Bowers
This stage has got a stinger in the tail.
Chuck Hodge
We do see some strong tail winds.
Mark Loughridge
Yeah, blindfolds, just like pin the tail on us. We're the donkey.
Vince Neil
I'm a real pussy cat -- with an iron tail.
Rona Barrett
I'm not even thinking that way. The NCAA is something that happens at the end of the year as a reward for playing your tail off. We're in year one and we've got eight scholarship guys and we're just trying to make it.
Dave Leito
Hold up your end of the bargain. Get out there and bust (your tail) trying to do your best for your teammates. And when you hold up your end of the bargain and you are accountable to everybody else on the team, things fall into place.
Joey Harrington
It would be a grave mistake for the Republicans to assume they can replay the boll weevil strategy of the early 1980s, ... George W. Bush is not Ronald Reagan. He would not come in with a strong tail wind of public support behind him, and he would not have a working majority in Congress.
Will Marshall
That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.
Bob Motzko
I think our somewhat up and down form is due to the fact that several of our players need a rest. Because of our paper-thin squad and because finance restricts us from making loan signings, I have to go with what I've got, but at the tail-end of the season, I think that's costing us.
John Still
It's a real hazard, because it curves a lot and because of the speed it makes it a real big hazard because they slide and fish-tail and everything.
Jose Sanchez
It doesn't say why, ... They just started tailing us.
Joseph Cataldo
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
You cross your skis and you grab the tail of your skis. It looks really cool.
Dylan Ball
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 G. Diefenbaker
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
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.
Ambrose Bierce
We decided not to mess with that. Maybe he had an accident and lost his tail at some point.
Matthew O'callaghan
Our rating on this share is a buy. And again that is really a function of the fact that I believe eBay is one of the few Internet and e-tailing sites out there that is really poised for dramatic growth for the long term.
Scott Reamer
I know how difficult and expensive it was for us to survive mother nature's tail a year ago - I can't even imagine how challenging it is for those in the Gulf Coast both then and today; our thoughts and prayers go out to them for their extensive loss of life and property.
Bill Berry
We saw video of Flight 11 flying into the building at such a close range. It's video that I've never seen before and all of us agreed we have never seen it before. It just completely took me aback. It was almost as if you were sitting on the tail of the plane, looking left.
Christie Coombs
He worked his tail off and is throwing the ball real well.
Mel Didier
He's just worked his tail off. He was everywhere tonight.
Sean Connolly
(Sophomore) Gil South worked his tail off on the mound today. But we just can't seem to get him any run support.
Jason Bradbury
There was a blue shark chewing on it. One of [the men] was using a boat hook to fend off the shark while the other one was wrapping a line around the tail.
Toby Stephenson
There are lots of good reasons why IT end-users will upgrade infrastructure -- and that's hardware and software -- (at the) tail end of this year.
George O'connor
You would never know that the tail is gone. I don't think even he knows it's gone.
Melinda Brink
Chuck has always been gifted, but he's much more disciplined. He attended some camps, got a good look at what great wide receivers look like and has been working his tail off. John Baldwin is a super possession receiver with good feet and great balance. They complement each other very well.
Tim Barthel
Barbie is the tail that wags the dog. If little girls aren't captivated by Barbie anymore, I don't know what happens.
Bob Goldsborough
It was hard for us to score. We had opportunities to score, but we just could not get it. When I found out (Ruiz would be out) , I just told (Ruiz) to hurry and get his tail back here.
Manny Garcia
When our brother Fire was having his dog's day / Jumping the London streets with millions of tin cans / Clanking at his tail, we heard some shadow say / `Give the dog a bone'.
Louis Macneice
(LeRoy) is playing his tail off. He's really, really helping out on defense. It helps our pitching to have a shortstop playing third base.
Rob Willson
They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.
Andre Caldwell
I've been changing my arm slot so I get tail on my fastball. I'm over the top right now and he wants me to bump it down a couple of degrees to get between three-quarters and over the top.
Jason Hooper
There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.
James Austin
Her work ethic has everything to do with this, ... Dreaming is the first step. Then you have to work you tail off to realize that dream. That's what a lot of people don't get. They just see the result. The harder you work the luckier you get, and she is getting really lucky.
Greg Nichols
I think the Fed is hanging its hopes on a couple of things. The bond price has dropped and yields have gone up and it is doing the job for them. . . the economy as a whole is slightly slower in the second quarter than it was in the first. There's hope that it will tail off to a more sustainable rate.
Alan Kral
His improvement from last season to this season was dramatic. He worked his tail off to get better in all facets. I can't imagine a more improved player.
Frank Allocco
I think it adds more fuel. I don't know what Bill does to him or what he does to Bill, but there always seems to be some animosity between them, especially after our last home game against them. That kind of stirred up stuff. It kind of motivates us ... to go out there and kick their tail.
Deanna Nolan
That's what the genome intends to do - to be that record-store clerk, in the small shop who knows you as a listener and has an encyclopedic knowledge of music. That's how you solve the long tail.
Tim Westergren
The one thing he's developed is on the inside part of the plate. He's gotten more aggressive with it. The old saying is what, he's [6-foot-4, 6-foot-5], and you don't want to let him get extension. If he gets extension and the ball's tailing in, he'll hit it.
Billy J. Williams
Chris really wasn't that sharp, but he battled his tail off tonight. He gave us a chance to win and that's what his job is.
Jamie Cook
The management of straddling fish stocks, especially on the Nose and the Tail of the Grand Banks, is a highly complicated issue, ... On behalf of Minister Pierre Pettigrew and myself, I want to thank the members of the panel - Arthur May, Derrick Rowe and Dawn Russell - for their analysis and efforts to shed light on possible solutions for this long-standing problem.
Geoff Regan
Wait, he's coming to the window, ... He's wagging his tail.
Jerry Anderson
It's always disappointing for spring to end. As coaches we finally see that progress, and it's always at the tail end of spring.
Steve Mullins
I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused pieces of two or three vertebrae. I knew it was very old by the color – an almost chocolate brown – and it was almost perfectly preserved.
Van Turner
If he were to run over a quarter on the race track, he'd tell you exactly where that quarter was laying and ... he'd tell you if it was on heads or tail. Some guys are going to tell you that there's a quarter out there. Some guys are not even going to see the quarter.
Robbie Loomis
To make sure you don't have any restrictions in your tail pipe.
Ted Manning
The Federal Reserve engages in a series of rate hikes at the tail end of an expansion when inflation is accelerating. What the Federal Reserve has done today is they made that less likely and thereby this expansion is more apt to go on as long as the year 2000.
Wayne Angell
It doesn't mean the most expensive wines get wood chips, but some very competitive wines do. It does a marvelous job and cuts the price. Hence, Yellow Tail.
Richard Steltzner
Westbrook battled his tail off out there, ... They didn't make it easy on him, either. He made big pitches, and then, obviously, our bullpen did an outstanding job.
Eric Wedge
If his tail is wagging, he likes you. You're either a friend or a relative, ... But if his tail is not wagging, you better watch out.
Elizabeth Davis
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