At length the fox turns monk. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An old fox understands a trap. [ Proverb ]
With foxes we must play the fox. [ Proverb ]
The wolf and fox are both privateers. [ Proverb ]
When the fox preacheth, beware geese. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When a fox preaches beware the geese. [ Proverb ]
The fox may grow grey, but never good. [ Proverb ]
Here eglantine embalm'd the air,
Hawthorne and hazel mingled there;
The primrose pale, and violet flower.
Found in each cliff a narrow bower;
Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side.
Emblems of punishment and pride,
Group'd their dark hues with every stain
The weather-beaten crags retain. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
He's like a fox, grey before he is good. [ Proverb ]
Woman is made of tongue, as fox of tail. [ Proverb ]
An old fox needs not to be taught tricks. [ Proverb ]
Let every fox take care of his own brush. [ Proverb ]
The fox fares best when he is most cursed. [ Proverb ]
It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb. [ Proverb ]
A fox is not caught twice in the same trap. [ French Proverb ]
Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
At length the fox is brought to the furrier. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Though the fox runs the chickens have wings. [ Proverb ]
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks. [ Proverb ]
The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks. [ Spanish Proverb ]
But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that will outwit the fox must rise betimes. [ Proverb ]
Fire, quoth the fox, when he pissed on the ice. [ Proverb ]
You cannot make a hunting-horn of a fox's-tail. [ Proverb ]
He that would deceive the fox must rise betimes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He's a proud fox that will not dig his own hole. [ Proverb ]
The fox praises the meat out of the crow's mouth. [ Proverb ]
It is a silly goose that comes to a fox's sermon. [ Proverb ]
The fox knows much, but more he that catches him. [ Proverb ]
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. [ Proverb ]
Poverty is crafty; it outwits (catches) even a fox. [ German Proverb ]
Amiens was taken by the fox and retaken by the lion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An old fox does not run into the snare a second time. [ German Proverb ]
The fox's wiles will never enter into the lion's head. [ Proverb ]
The fox is cunning, but he is more cunning who takes him. [ Spanish Proverb ]
It is a blind goose that knows not a fox from a fern-bush. [ Proverb ]
When the fox could not reach the grapes, he cried they are sour. [ Proverb ]
He that hath a fox for his mate hath need of a net at his girdle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If a fox is cunning, a woman in love is a thousand times more so. [ Proverb ]
The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He bought the fox-skin for threepence, and sold the tail for a shilling. [ Proverb ]
When the lion's skin cannot prevail, a little of the fox's must be used. [ Lysander ]
The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. [ Proverb ]
The brains of a fox will be of little service if you play with the paw of a lion. [ Proverb ]
Health - the silliest word in our language, and one knows the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
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. [ Madame Necker ]
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]