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Letter "T" » The Crocodiles
«Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout»
Author: Ashanti Proverb
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Keywords:
crocodile,
crocodiles,
crossed,
Crossing the river,
lump,
lumped,
lumps,
snout,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles,
The River
«If you ford the river in a crowd, the crocodiles won't get you»
«If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile»
«ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
alligator,
alligators,
crocodile,
crocodiles,
detail,
effete,
Go West,
Grown up,
Herodotus,
Indus,
monarchies,
notch,
Old World,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles,
The monarchy
«It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.»
«How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!»
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Logician,
Mathematician,
Novelist,
Photographer)
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Keywords:
crocodile,
crocodiles,
golden,
improve,
Nile,
pour,
scale,
shining,
tail,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles,
waters
«Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last. (October 27, 1964)»
Author: Ronald Reagan
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President)
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Keywords:
assault,
business community,
clients,
conveying,
crocodile,
crocodiles,
customers,
family business,
feeding,
handout,
hoping,
invasion,
issues,
October,
October 27,
patients,
socialize,
socialized,
socializing,
studying,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles,
The Doctor,
The Doctors
«As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.»
Author: William James
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Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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About:
Humanity,
Truth
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Keywords:
appeals,
boa,
boa constrictor,
Challenges,
constrictor,
constrictors,
crocodiles,
dealing,
misunderstood,
sympathy,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles
«An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last»
Author: Winston Churchill
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Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
appeaser,
Appeasers,
crocodile,
crocodiles,
eat,
eaten up,
eat in,
eat into,
eat on,
eat out,
Eat This,
fed up,
feeds,
feed in,
him,
hoping,
it Ate,
last,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles
«A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up»