Tigers

Famous quotes containing the word tigers:

“Even tigers sometimes take naps.”
—Chinese proverb.

“When two tigers fight, one is sure to be wounded.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Serpents, bears, hyenas, tigers rapidly vanish as civilization advances, but the most populous and civilized city cannot scare a shark far from its wharves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)