Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old tiger quotes, tiger sayings, and tiger proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport. When a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.George Bernard Shaw
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Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.John F. Kennedy
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.Henry David Thoreau
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.Konrad Adenauer
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The long run puts the tiger in the cat.Bill Squires
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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.Will Cuppy
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No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.Master Funakoshi
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.Wole Soyinka
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The tiger will never lie down with the lamb. He acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.Angela Carter
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Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.Madonna Ciccone
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The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim.Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.William Blake
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A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.Chinese Proverb
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Tiger watches and hunts; whereas, hyenas wait and wait, for their time, to reach rubbish left by the tiger; similarly, the fools wait, not the wise ones.Ehsan Segal
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The tiger’s world, by contrast, is not only amoral but peculiarly consequence-free, and this-the atavistic certainty that there is nothing more lethal than itself-is the apex predator’s greatest weaknessJohn Vaillant
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The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.John Vaillant
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A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.Shunryu Suzuki
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Tiger father begets tiger son.Chinese Proverb
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The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.Steven Erikson
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A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.Wole Soyinka
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A tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.Aravind Adiga
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A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.Arthur Golden