She hath a gad-bee in her tail. [ Proverb ]
In confusion; neither head nor tail. [ Proverb ]
Can you make a pipe of a pig's tail? [ Proverb ]
Let every herring hang by its own tail. [ Irish Proverb ]
Woman is made of tongue, as fox of tail. [ Proverb ]
No dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. [ Italian Proverb ]
Make not your tail broader than your wings. [ Proverb ]
She goes as if she cracked nuts with her tail. [ Proverb ]
To swallow an ox, and be choked with the tail. [ Proverb ]
To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth. [ Proverb ]
Let him that owns the cow take her by the tail. [ Proverb ]
You cannot make a hunting-horn of a fox's-tail. [ Proverb ]
You can never make a good shaft of a pig's tail. [ Proverb ]
It is natural to a greyhound to have a long tail. [ Proverb ]
Cutoff the head and tail, and throw the rest away. [ Proverb ]
The higher the ape goes the more he shows his tail. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If you buy the cow, take the tail into the bargain. [ Proverb ]
She is like a cat, she will play with her own tail. [ Proverb ]
She who often looks in the glass thinks of her tail. [ Proverb ]
Better's the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. [ Proverb ]
Like lambs, you do nothing but suck and wag your tail. [ Proverb ]
It amounts to no more than the tail of a roasted horse. [ Proverb ]
Better the head of the yeomen than the tail of the gentry. [ Proverb ]
If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will squeak. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Poison lurks in the tail; or, there is a sting in the tail. [ Proverb ]
There is as much hold of his words, as of a wet eel's tail. [ Proverb ]
If one, two or three tell you, you are an ass, put on a tail. [ Proverb ]
It is a silly horse that can neither whinny nor wag his tail. [ Proverb ]
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is a foolish bird that stays the laying salt upon her tail. [ Proverb ]
It is better to be the head of a lizard than the tail of a lion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Jest with an ass, and he will flap you in the face with his tail. [ Proverb ]
Sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth but a sting in its tail. [ H. Ballou ]
He bought the fox-skin for threepence, and sold the tail for a shilling. [ Proverb ]
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing. [ Proverb ]
To make love only when signing the marriage certificate, is to take romance by the tail. [ Moliere ]
The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]
He that has too little wants wings to fly, he that has too much is encumbered with his large tail. [ Proverb ]
It is as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes, as it is for a peacock to spread his tail. [ Proverb ]
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. [ Victor Hugo ]
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it. [ Charles Lamb ]
Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. [ Heine ]
There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]
His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]
Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-tail but lights out.
You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline if you prefer - and without prejudice - for they are not legally collectable. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]