Top 100 A Fox Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About A Fox

#1. He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Yes, Gracie was a fox. No, really. She was. Literally. (We know. It's too good.) The

Cynthia Hand

#3. If a fox shall bear down upon the rabbit and take its neck between its teeth, the rabbit shall understand, for the rabbit itself bites down upon the grasses of the field. And as the large insect eats the smaller, it too is eaten, by a bird that flushes down from the air to complete a cycle.

Erika Mailman

#4. Be quiet as a Hebi, a snake and quick as a Kitsune, a fox, the two cardinal rules of being a paparazzi.

Vann Chow

#5. It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

Warren E. Burger

#6. But Neil Josten was a Fox. Andrew called his home; Nicky called him family. Neil wasn't going to lose any of it.

Nora Sakavic

#7. I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal - of a crow or a fox or an owl - and not of a normal human being. I

Peter Swanson

#8. It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Deer Reeder: First may I say, sorry for any werds I spel rong. Because I am a fox! So don't rite or spel perfect.

George Saunders

#10. It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity.

Ben McKenzie

#11. You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; and when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!

Mary Webb

#12. A fox is subtlety itself.

Aristophanes

#13. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

Niccolo Machiavelli

#15. American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

Rita Mae Brown

#16. Why do the men come, do you suppose?" asked Fiver. "Who knows why men do anything? They may drive cows or sheep in the fields, or cut wood in the copses. What does it matter? I'd rather dodge a man than a stoat or a fox.

Richard Adams

#17. 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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#18. Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.

Peter Schiff

#19. A fish is a genius in water.
An eagle is a genius in air.
A fox is a genius on land.
A sage is a genius in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.

George Allen

#21. And you would not Shift into a Fox, noti in a box, not wearing sock?
Scout

Tammy Blackwell

#22. Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in different worlds they will forever stay

Neil Gaiman

#23. It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend .

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#24. If you're a fox, play the hare. If you're the hare, play the fox.

Pierce Brown

#25. I can dance like an angel, fight like a cornered bear, plan better than a fox, sing like a nightingale ...

Neil Gaiman

#26. Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me ... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Bea Arthur

#27. If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn't say the fox killed the brains. You'd say the fox offed the goose.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

#28. The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.

Bernard Goldberg

#30. Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Zora Neale Hurston

#31. The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

Adolf Hitler

#32. You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

Mae West

#33. Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox.

Roddy Piper

#34. I hate that guy." He paused. "He got a fox already," he muttered under his breath.

"Everyone hates him. And we both know that foxes hunt around garbage.

N.M. Sotzek

#35. I aine never seen a fox before. So, why should I be scared of you and I don't even-now know you a real fox for a fact?

Patricia C. McKissack

#36. Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

George Herbert

#37. I wish I was close to Jace Herondale," Julie sighted. "He is so gorgeous."
"He is foxier than a fox fur in a fox hole on fox hunting day," Beatriz agreed dreamily.

Cassandra Clare

#38. I'd thought he was stars and then I'd thought he was a fox. I had thought I'd been alone, but I hadn't.

Beth Kephart

#39. A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

Aesop

#40. So we went to the Zoo; & I daresay I could write something interesting about that
a pale stone desert given over to charwomen & decorators: a few bears, a mandrill, & a fox or two
all in the desolation of depression.

Virginia Woolf

#41. But my father's is closest. (Emily)
A wounded hawk doesn't bed down in a fox's den. (Draven)

Kinley MacGregor

#42. I don't want to be a Raven. I don't want to be Nathaniel. I want to be Neil Josten. I want to be a Fox.

Nora Sakavic

#43. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller

#44. - the rusalka was kneeling beside Plain Kate on the deck. She was made of fog and shadow until Kate caught her eye, and then, all at once, she became human. She was young, mischievously sad, a fox in a story. Kate fell in love with her. And then she was gone.

Erin Bow

#45. A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller

#46. Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#47. He thought of Gracie. How she was a fox (but Edward was not aware of this little irony, as to our knowledge the term fox, used to convey the attractiveness of a woman, was not invented until Jimi Hendrix sang "Foxy Lady" in 1967).

Cynthia Hand

#48. A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, "I will have a camel for lunch today." And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, "A mouse will do.

Kahlil Gibran

#49. One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#50. It was daylight outside, which meant it was late in the morning, and a fox was staring up at him, insolently, from the snow.

Anonymous

#51. Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

Eileen Wilks

#52. Green eggs, or not green eggs? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to eat them in a box, with a fox -

Christopher Moore

#53. One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.

Oscar Wilde

#54. So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake." "Crazy like a fox," I said.

Jim Butcher

#55. The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

Bernard Levin

#56. Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.

Erin Hunter

#57. But since a Prince should know how to use the beast's nature wisely, he ought of beasts to choose both the lion and the fox; for the lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. He must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#58. Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

Robert Kiyosaki

#59. Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

Ted Turner

#60. She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria
it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

Simone De Beauvoir

#61. The coming battle was waiting like a fox in the shadows.

Erin Hunter

#62. Four of Dan's sisters had made it. They wore white sundresses they'd altered so three spelled out FOX. The fourth sported a fox paw that was already starting to lose a toe pad. They practically crushed Dan, smothering her with a group hug before fawning over her.

Nora Sakavic

#63. I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Billy Corgan

#64. Think like a Fox, but don't Behave like one!

Mohith Agadi

#65. Go on, live in your poultry-yard. Scratch straw and cluck and cackle at everything that you take for a fox. [Exit.

W.B.Yeats

#66. I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly.
"Live," said the monk.
"You shall be revenged," said the fox. "The onmyoji who did this to you will learn what it means to take something from a fox.

Neil Gaiman

#67. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world
- the little prince

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#68. I am a fox", the fox said.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#69. I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two.

Stephen Lang

#70. 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.

Meriwether Lewis

#71. Crazy like a fox.

Kresley Cole

#72. 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.

Anna Howard Shaw

#73. The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

Idries Shah

#74. I used to watch 'The Apprentice' all the time and I thought Bill was a fox. That was that, we didn't see each other for years, and then we saw each other and 45 minutes after the cameras stopped rolling, we were still talking.

Giuliana Rancic

#75. An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Francois Truffaut

#76. I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#77. You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you

Carlo Gambino

#78. So that's a fox?' Firepaw whispered. 'What an ugly muzzle!'
'You can say that again!' agreed Graypaw.
'I was following one of those when we first . . . met,' whispered Firepaw.
'More likely it was following you, you idiot!' hissed Graypaw.

Erin Hunter

#79. They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Otto Von Bismarck

#80. The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

Dean Cavanagh

#81. The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

Amy Ray

#82. You are a Fox," Andrew said, like it was that simple, and maybe it was. Nathaniel

Nora Sakavic

#83. While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

Barry McGuigan

#84. Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Candida Martinelli

#85. I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

Larry Buchanan

#86. A drow and a dwarf, a dwarf and a drow, a hunnerd times better'n a fox and a cow! Bwahaha! Athrogate added with unbridled enthusiasm.

R.A. Salvatore

#87. An ancient noise, like a fox bark, makes an attempt at the edges of my brain.

Emma Healey

#88. I thought I smelled an early hint of the mysterious bittersweet gas that fills Pittsburgh in the summertime, a smell at once industrial and aboriginal, river water and sulfur dioxide, burning tires and the coat of a fox.

Michael Chabon

#89. If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

Chin-Ning Chu

#90. A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

Meriwether Lewis

#91. You are a Fox. You are always going to be nothing.

Nora Sakavic

#92. 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.

Terry Pratchett

#93. I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.

Cate Tiernan

#94. Sometimes it was possible for me to believe he had practised an enchantment upon me, as foxes in this country may, for, here, a fox can masquerade as human and at the best of times the high cheekbones gave to his face the aspect of a mask.

Angela Carter