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There iz this difference between genius and common sense in a fox: Common sense iz governed bi circumstances, but circumstances iz governed by genius.
— Foxes
There iz this difference between genius and common sense in a fox: Common sense iz governed bi circumstances, but circumstances iz governed by genius.
Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.
With foxes we must play the fox.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
To make women learned, and foxes tame, hath the same operation, which teacheth them to steale more cuningly, but the possibility is not equall, for when it doth one good, it doth twenty harme.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house I ran my heedless ways.
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
An election is coming: Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for 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.
You will catch the fox with cunning, and the wolf with courage.
Now when the king had assembled all his subjects together, there was no one absent save Reynard the Fox, against whom many grievous accusations were laid.
The King taking a straw from the ground, pardoned the fox of all his trespasses which either he or his father had ever committed. If the fox now began to smile, it was no wonder; the sweetness of life required it: yet he fell down before the King and Queen, and humbly thanked them for mercy.
Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en brer Fox, he lay low.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines (...)
Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.
