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. I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J.D. Salinger
#4. Dogs hate foxes. Nazis hate Jews. Hate doesn't need a why. Who or even what is ample.
David Mitchell
#5. We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. 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
#7. Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
Wallace Stevens
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. He dreamed of facing his father on an Exy court, and in his dream the Foxes won.
Nora Sakavic
#12. The shrewd hunt foxes,
the strong hunt lions,
but the mighty hunt elephants.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#22. 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
#23. I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.
Amy Weber
#24. Clear moon, a boy afraid of foxes walked home by his lover
Jane Hirshfield
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.
Paul Johnson
#36. I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
Roger Daltrey
#38. 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
#39. If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
William Greider
#40. He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes.
Brandon Sanderson
#41. 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
#42. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
Ambrose Bierce
#43. One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
Donna Mills
#45. 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
#46. 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
#48. 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
#49. To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
King James I
#50. 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
#52. To make a forty-inch fur coat it takes between thirty and two hundred chinchilla, or sixty mink, fifty sables, fifty muskrats, forty-five opossums, forty raccoons, thirty-five rabbits, twenty foxes, twenty otters, eighteen lynx, sixteen coyotes, fifteen beavers, or eight seals.
Karen Dawn
#53. She wasn't soft, but she never saw the sense of a living thing dying such a cruel death just for some woman's vanity. Still, she thought, a fur coat when the wind blew down off the Tenmile Range would feel mighty good. Maybe they made fur coats out of foxes that died of old age.
Sandra Dallas
#54. When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
Mary Oliver
#55. Neil didn't care how many hearts they broke that night. They'd beaten USC. When the Trojans lost to the Ravens next week they'd be eliminated from championships. The Foxes were going to finals, and that was the only thing that mattered. -
Nora Sakavic
#56. We love a lot of vampire fiction - both fiction in which the vampires are enemies to be battled or stone cold foxes to be dated.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#57. The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.
Harry Markopolos
#58. Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
Joyce Meyer
#59. Lillian Hellman wrote a play called The Little Foxes. In it a young girl tells her mother that some people eat the earth, like locusts, and others stand around and watch them do it.
Sylvain Reynard
#60. Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Matthew McConaughey
#62. That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [ ... ], there might even be men with guns.
Walter Mosley
#63. You want to protect the innocent. Let me tell you, God isn't just in the rabbits. He's also in the foxes. So your little act of kindness deprived God of a meal.
Deepak Chopra
#64. 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
#65. Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#66. The Foxhole Court was the only home he needed; he Foxes were his family.
Nora Sakavic
#67. Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
Nelson Algren
#68. They were exhausted, sore, and more than a little disappointed by their loss, but the Foxes left the stadium feeling like champions.
Nora Sakavic
#69. I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.
Joyce Meyer
#70. He came over last night. He'd been out chasing foxes with his friends, and you know what he and the boys are like when they do the werewolf thing. The women, the drinking, and the farm animals." "Feeding on raw steak before he went out didn't curb the need to eat sheep?
Stephanie Rowe
#71. The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles
Wayne Wignall
#72. But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was his second language.
Patricia A. McKillip
#73. [The Bible] warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins
can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.
Billy Graham
#74. Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.
Eddie Izzard
#75. My heart stole back across wide wastes of years To One who wandered by a lonely sea, And sought in vain for any place of rest: 'Foxes have holes, and every bird its nest. I, only I, must wander wearily, And bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears.' Poem:
Oscar Wilde
#76. Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible.
Fanny Britt
#77. Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
Gunnar Myrdal
#78. Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me," Abby said. "Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I'm always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I'm sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.
Nora Sakavic
#79. Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.
Robin Pecknold
#80. Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
#81. You know, when you were three years old, you got lost in the woods and we found you with your head in a foxes den. Sometimes I think very little has changed. I mean, you be a bit taller.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#83. 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
#84. If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
William Blake
#85. 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
#86. Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
George Herbert
#87. 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
#88. 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
#92. Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Murray Rothbard
#93. The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
Thomas Paine
#95. Why was Donald Trump's decision not to participate in the Fox debate such a big deal?
Michel Martin
#96. Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'
Jay Leno
#97. 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
#98. The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
William Blake
#100. But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.
William Shakespeare
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