Crocodiles Quotes

• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

  Steve Irwin

  Funny, Betrayal, I Hate You

  "My Steve". Book by Terri Irwin, 2012.

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• The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

  Pyotr Kapitsa

  Science, Devouring, Turns

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• See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

  Bill Haley

  Alligators, Dark Tower Series

  Song: See You Later, Alligator, Album: Rock Around the Clock

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• Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

  Homer

  Sleep, Giants, Blenders

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• Love is a crocodile just above the water line waiting to attack the innocent herbivore of my freedom.

  Dov Davidoff

  Love Is, Water, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 08, 2012

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• Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Faces

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• The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

  Louis Kahn

  Want, Reason

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• If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Presidential, Lasts

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.5, Humanix Books

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• It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

  Francis Bacon

  Tears, Atheism, Shed

  Essays "Of Wisdom for a Man's Self " (1625)

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• The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

  Alfred Jarry

  Art, Art Is, Works Of Art

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.

  Philip K. Dick

  Long, Water, Matter

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• The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

  Linda Hogan

  Bird, Teeth, Harm

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• To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Regret, Political, Goes On

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• Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Two, World, Remember

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.128, 谷月社

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• How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

  Lewis Carroll

  Water, Shining, Tails

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

  James M. Barrie

  Neverland, Chasing

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• Crikey means gee whiz, wow!

  Steve Irwin

  Mean, Wow, Crocs

  "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2004.

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• Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Angel, Firsts

  Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, January 2, 1889.

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• Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

  Ashanti

  Rivers, Stupidity, Lumps

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• Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.

  Steve Irwin

  Nine, Problem, Catching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

  Peter Kreeft

  Worship

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• Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

  Steve Irwin

  Animal, Doe, Matter

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• "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cute, Friends, Sweet

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• They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Lasts

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