Top 100 Quotes About Foxes
#1. It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
Gene Wolfe
#2. Sometimes I cannot understand the things men do. The way they gnash and tear at one another - it's worse than wolves or foxes.
Janette Oke
#3. There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and then, that's fine. I still see those girls, but I pretend they're paintings. Or advertisements. But that was only later.
Cees Nooteboom
#4. I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J.D. Salinger
#5. Dogs hate foxes. Nazis hate Jews. Hate doesn't need a why. Who or even what is ample.
David Mitchell
#6. We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. Special Forces guys were usually small. They were usually lean, fast, and whippy. Built for endurance and stamina and full of smarts and cunning. Like foxes, not like bears.
Lee Child
#8. If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
William Blake
#9. Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
Wallace Stevens
#10. Weasels
and stoats
and foxes
and so on. They're all right in a way
I'm very good friends with them
pass the time of day when we meet, and all that
but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then
well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.
Kenneth Grahame
#11. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.
Susan Block
#12. If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him ... but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.
David Duchovny
#13. I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.
Frank Abagnale
#14. Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
George Herbert
#15. After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
Barry Goldwater
#16. He dreamed of facing his father on an Exy court, and in his dream the Foxes won.
Nora Sakavic
#17. The shrewd hunt foxes,
the strong hunt lions,
but the mighty hunt elephants.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. 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.
William Shakespeare
#21. If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis."16
Sam Harris
#23. Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Murray Rothbard
#24. But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.
L. Frank Baum
#25. The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
Thomas Paine
#26. I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it.
Greg Wise
#28. Why was Donald Trump's decision not to participate in the Fox debate such a big deal?
Michel Martin
#30. We're okay," he said to the empty hall. "We're going to be okay." The Foxes would be okay, at least, and that was more than enough.
Nora Sakavic
#31. Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'
Jay Leno
#32. 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.
John Oliver
#33. The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
William Blake
#35. But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.
William Shakespeare
#36. Those canids such as foxes, who do not live in a social group, appear to have a much more limited range of things to say. Even the kinds of sounds foxes make are indicative of their more solitary nature: they make sounds that travel well over long distances.
Alexandra Horowitz
#37. Everybody's life looks better when you're standing outside it, looking in, but that's never how it really is. We all got good things and bad things...
Torey L. Hayden
#38. The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#39. Anytime the Foxes mentioned Andrew's upcoming sobriety or Andrew's name popped up in write-ups on the team's performance at games, the focus was on what a danger he was. People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.
Nora Sakavic
#40. The thing you got to understand about foxes,' Dixie said, 'is that they're innocent of what they're doing. They got no idea they're destroying what they love most.
Torey L. Hayden
#42. It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
John Lyly
#43. I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
Mae West
#44. It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!
Hillary Clinton
#45. The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.
Adolf Hitler
#46. I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
Fran Lebowitz
#48. Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.
Pope Leo X
#49. I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.
Amy Weber
#50. Clear moon, a boy afraid of foxes walked home by his lover
Jane Hirshfield
#51. 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
#52. It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.
Ella Eyre
#53. I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.
Bill Bailey
#54. Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
George Herbert
#55. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot
#56. Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
Adrian Lyne
#57. This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
John Locke
#58. One was Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this. And multiple sources have said that this was authored by Roger Ailes himself.
Ryan Grim
#59. Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do."?
Ted Olson
#60. Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you ...
Rex Stout
#61. Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth.
Anthony Weiner
#62. The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
Suetonius
#63. Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
Plutarch
#64. Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.
Brian Jacques
#65. Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.
Jane Jacobs
#69. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#70. She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.
A.S. Byatt
#72. If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.
Paul Johnson
#73. I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
Roger Daltrey
#75. I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.
Courtney Love
#76. Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this.
Michel Martin
#77. If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
William Greider
#78. He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes.
Brandon Sanderson
#79. What I took to be the norm
taut, smooth, supple
was the transient special case of youth. To me, the old were a separate species, like sparrows or foxes.
Ian McEwan
#80. Fox succeeds because it's entertaining. It's like a rightwing freak show.
Stephanie Miller
#81. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
Ambrose Bierce
#82. The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.
Bernard Levin
#83. The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.
Giacomo Leopardi
#84. 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.
Woodrow Wilson
#85. One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
Donna Mills
#87. Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. 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?
Ronald Reagan
#89. The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.
George Herbert
#90. I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
Joel Chandler Harris
#91. Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.
John Joseph O'Connor
#92. Neil had spent his entire life drifting by on the outskirts, looked over and looked past. It'd made him happy, or so he'd thought, because being ignored meant he was safe. He hadn't realized how lonely he was until he met the Foxes.
Nora Sakavic
#93. Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.
Rich Hall
#95. In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.
Suzanne Curchod
#96. You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.
Scott Aukerman
#97. And they go: Foxes are our favrit Animal. And I go: Thanks. And they go: Why o why were we so stupid as to choose Dogs for our mane Pets? And I go: I reely don't know.
George Saunders
#98. To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
King James I
#99. 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
#100. Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
Gene Tierney
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