Mantis Clan

Famous quotes containing the words mantis and/or clan:

    The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.
    Chinese proverb.

    It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)