Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or mantis:
“Lovely,
this plowman’s son
with the good-looking wife
has gone so thin over you
that the woman,
though jealous,
is playing the go-between herself!”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.”
—Chinese proverb.