Praying Mantis Styles

Famous quotes containing the words praying, mantis and/or styles:

    Senator Albert B. Fall: “We have been praying for you, Sir.” President Wilson: “Which way, Senator?”
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

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

    For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)