Rationalism crashes in the tails.
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.
The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.
I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.
She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.
Tuck in your tail, little duck.
If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option. '
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.