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?
Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.
I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.
Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.
They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as. . . the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.
A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.
The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.
Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.
Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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.
Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.
