Hamilton Tiger Cats

Famous quotes containing the words hamilton, tiger and/or cats:

    The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
    —Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

    As a tiger may lose its footing on soft ground, so people may be tripped up by sweet words.
    Chinese proverb.

    Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)