Tiger Moth

Famous quotes containing the words tiger and/or moth:

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

“... until the shopkeeper plants his boot in our eyes,
and unties our bone and is finished with the case,
and turns to the next customer, forgetting our face
or how we knelt at the yellow bulb with sighs
like moth wings for a short while in a small place.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)