Crocodile Quotes

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. (Winston Churchill)
You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile! View quote
Anton Chekhov
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. View quote
Steve Irwin
The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. View quote
George Chapman
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse. View quote
Rick Riordan
We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. "What do we do now? View quote
Rick Riordan
Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster. View quote
Rick Riordan
Right,” I said. "So the baboon, the crocodile...any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. "Visible ones? No, I think that's it. (Rick Riordan)
See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. View quote
Bill Haley
The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name. View quote
John Lawson
I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. View quote
Louis Leakey
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected. View quote
Zahi Hawass
Stop jumping with joy every time a crime happens, Mr Rahul Gandhi. The state has already assured strict and prompt action. You divide the society in every manner possible for electoral gains and then shed crocodile tears. Enough is enough. You are a MERCHANT OF HATE. View quote
Rahul Gandhi
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. View quote
Steve Irwin
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. View quote
Steve Irwin
Only two suppositions seem to be open to us - Either each species of crocodile has been specially created, or it has arisen out of some pre-existing form by the operation of natural causes. Choose your hypothesis; I have chosen mine. I can find no warranty for believing in the distinct creation of a score of successive species of crocodiles in the course of countless ages of time. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance. View quote
Robert Burton
Well Crocodile Rocking is something shocking, When your feet just can't keep still. I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will. (Elton John)
I remember when rock was young, Me and Suzie had so much fun Holding hands and skimming stones. Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own. But the biggest kick I ever got Was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock. While the other kids were Rocking Round the Clock, We were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock. View quote
Elton John
Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. "Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world. View quote
Alex Haley
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws! View quote
Lewis Carroll
Camped on a tropic riverside, One day he missed his loving bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten by an alligator. Professor Twist could not but smile. "You mean," he said, "a crocodile." View quote
Ogden Nash
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