Foxes quotes
169 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves."
"A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run."
"To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning."
"Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox."
"One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves"
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"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
"The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox."
"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."
"Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour."
"Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox"."
"The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare."
"I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not."
"The fox condemns the trap, not himself."
"I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi"
"Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves"
"If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks."
"Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?"
"If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning."
"Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted."
"Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill."
"Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens."
"As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]"
"Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's."
"The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators."
"Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized."
