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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Fox |
| Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum. The fox has many tricks, the hedgehog only one. Erasmus—Adagia. | 1 |
| Tar-baby ain’t sayin’ nuthin’, en brer Fox, he lay low. Joel Chandler Harris—Tar-Baby Story. Legends of the Old Plantation. Ch. XII. | 2 |
| The little foxes, that spoil the vines. Song of Solomon. IV. 15. | 3 |
| Honteux comme un renard qu’une poule aurait pris. As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. La Fontaine—Fables. I. 18. | 4 |
| Where the lion’s skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox’s. Lysander—Plutarch’s Life of Lysander. | 5 |
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