
“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Inarticulate Touches
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”
" The Span of Life http://members.tripod.com/~AMDB7/poems/thespanoflife.html" (1936)
1930s