Tigers Quotes

• O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Heart

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 4, l. 137

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• Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sheep, Years, Hundred

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• The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Lows, Aim

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.622, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

  John Vaillant

  Hundred

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.51, Vintage

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• Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

  Sun Tzu

  Cubs

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Animal, Doe, Cows

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• Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, War, Adversity

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Men, Compassion

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Dictator, Socialism

  Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

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• Now I know why tigers eat their young.

  Al Capone

  Young, Knows

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• Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

  John F. Kennedy

  Power, Best Effort, Riding

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sheep, Culture, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Anger

  "Man and Hunger: The Perspectives of History". Arnold J. Toynbee's speech to the World Food Congress, January 9, 1963.

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• God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.

  John Updike

  God, Lambs, Wells

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.166, Random House

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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  Mao Zedong

  Long, Wake Up, Use

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• You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

  Richard Mitchell

  Society, Way, Vegetarian

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Decision, Acting

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Kings

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• Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

  John Gardner

  Teeth, Grows, Pursue

  John Gardner, Joe Servello (1977). “In the suicide mountains”, Random House Inc

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• An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Funny, Humor, Method

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• Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

  Amy Tan

  Tree, Waiting, Unseen

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• You can do anything you decide to do.

  Amelia Earhart

  Decision, Process Of Change, Tenacity

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Wizards, Lions, Bears

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