Top 169 Tigers Quotes & Sayings

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?

Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people with animals like tigers, who've got their own zoos in America, and one guy's got something like 2,000 tigers in his back garden. It's absolutely mad.

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

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.

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.

I'm a Detroit Tigers fan through and through.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

One of the first things I learned from veteran teammates - as a minor league player in the Detroit Tigers organization - was that you do everything in your power to stay out of the training room. It's a survival of the fittest thing.

The real takeaway should be to give your money to conservation programs around the world that are really working hard to save tigers in their range countries and not give your money to sanctuaries, which are really, effectively just caging tigers and cats.

When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at checkpoints because they were just creating more operatives. The [Tigers] were cognizant of this and exploited it: "Don't be a victim, join the movement.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

I am fine battling lions, tigers, snakes, bulls, even hippopotamuses, but not lizards.

Tigers love pepper...they hate cinnamon.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. They're disappearing because of industry coming in and cutting down the forests.

What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well.

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

'Roar' is a film based on the tigers in the Sundarbans. It is the story of a battle between man and the beast.

When Princeton plays Harvard, I'm rooting for Princeton, of course. Go Tigers!

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

India came to be known in the West because of 'Gandhi.' Otherwise, they still thought that tigers roam around on the streets in India.

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

My interest is in the Wests Tigers. Nobody can support a team that is all the time on the bottom; that's a waste of time.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.

Sometimes people need to think of themselves as lions or tigers. Even panthers.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

Imagine a dense forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. Knowing that you are well protected by the cage, you watch the tigers fearlessly. Next, you find the tigers in the cage and yourself roaming about in the jungle. Last, the cage disappears and you ride the tigers!

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.