FOX

Related Subjects: Animal, Cunning, Hunting

1. The little foxes, that spoil the vines.—Bible, The Song of Solomon 2:15

2. Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. The more the fox is cursed, the better he fares.—ROBERT GREENE, Friar Bacon
   

4. Where the lion's skin will not reach, a little of the fox's must be used.—LYSANDER, Plutarch: Lives

5. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.—Proverb
   

6. He that will outwit the fox must rise betimes.—Proverb
   

7. The fox may grow grey but never good.—Proverb
   

8. At length the fox is brought to the furrier.—Proverb
   

9. Foxes dig not their own holes.—Proverb
   

10. Foxes never fare better than when they are curst.—Proverb
    

11. The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

12. The fox which lives by subtlety.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis
    

13. The fox changes his fur, but not his habits.—SUETONIUS, Lives of the Twelve Caesars