Quotes of Fox - somelinesforyou

“ But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. ”

- John Milton

“ What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Ah me! from real happiness we stray,By vice bewilder'd; vice which always leads.However fair at first, to wilds of woe. ”

- James Thomson

“ With foxes we must play the fox. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog… ”

- Colin Wilson

“ So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves. ”

- Niccolo Macbiavelli

“ In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. ”

- Ruth Weston

“ 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

“ Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. ”

- Jean Renoir

“ Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ”

- George Gordon Byron

“ Only as time went on, did I begin to realize that Fox News Channel wasn't a news-type organization. It was a political propaganda machine. ”

- Jon Du Pre

“ This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded. ”

- Bill O’Reilly

“ 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 Cardinal O’Connor

“ As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ”

- Lord Byron

“ There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect. ”

- Andrew Heyward

“ The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me. ”

- Unknown

“ Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me. ”

- Unknown

“ Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. ”

- William Wycherley

“ Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth. ”

- Bible

“ You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. ”

- Murray Walker

“ One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. ”

- Norman Tebbit

“ Unfortunately, America wasn't paying attention when he was giving his stump speech. ”

- Al Franken

“ Who so beset him round / With dismal stories, / Do but themselves confound; / His strength the more is. ”

- John Bunyan

“ The sleeping fox catches no poultry. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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