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When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!
'All right,'said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with thegrin, whichremained sometime after therest of it had gone.
'Will you walk a little faster?'said a whiting to a snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail.'
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.
As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
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?'
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.But he never told anybody.
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail, A swollen magpie in a fitful sun, Half black half white Nor knowst'ou wing from tail Pull down thy vanity.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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