"Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens."
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"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."
"I don't like the American media - particularly Fox."
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox."
"Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors."
"I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes."
"Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes."
"Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue."
"The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe."
"A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others."
"Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that."
"I decline to go fox hunting."
"No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world."
"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields."
"The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion."
"ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!"
"He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves."