| The Tyger Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? -- William Blake |
| Famous Quotes "The tiger lives in a world of sunlight and shadow. Always secretive-never devious. Always a killer-never a murder. Solitary-never alone. For it is an irreplaceable link in the process and wholeness in life. --John Seidensticker "I consider the tiger a being, a created being. If you kill all the tigers, still the tigers soul continues... but the point is I don't want the tiger superseded. Oh, may each she-tigress have 77 whelps and may they all grow in strenght and shine in stripes like day and night, and may each one eat as many as 70 miserable featherless human birds, and lick red chops of gusto after it." --D.H. Lawrence "If a man proves to clearly and convincingly to himself that the tiger as an optical allusion---well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger himself will intervene in the disscussion." --G.K. Chesterten |
| Tiger Proverbs A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off. Chinese Proverb "A hero only appears once the tiger is dead." -- Burmese Proverb "The child of a tiger is a tiger." -- Haitian Proverb "Never scratch a tiger with a short stick." -- Proverb "If you want to know what a tiger is like, look at a cat." -- Hindu proverb "Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank Him for not having given it wings." -- African proverb "Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important." -- Korean Proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount." -- Traditional Proverb "A tiger does not have to proclaim its tigritude." -- Nigerian Proverb "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." -- Chinese Proverb To negotiate with a tiger for its skin -- Chinese Proverb Keeping the company of an emperor is like keeping the company of a tiger -- Chinese Proverb Without entering the tiger's lair, how can one catch the tiger's cub? -- Chinese Proverb A new-born calf fears no tiger. -- Chinese Proverb If you want to catch a tiger, you have to go into a tiger's cave. -- Korean proverb Vicious as a female tiger can be, she never eats her own cubs. -- Chinese Proverb Gentleman keeps his word, tiger follows his foot print. -- Uighur Proverb One day as a tiger is worth a thousand as a sheep. -- Chinese Proverb Chinese Proverbs "If you miss the tiger, he won't miss you" "When the tiger dies he doesn't lose his dignity" "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" Man dies and leaves a name, tiger dies and leaves a skin" "The tiger on the plain is insulted by the dogs" "For every tiger you see, Five see you" When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. Back |
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| "It is a proverbial that from a hungry tiger and an affectionatle woman there is no escape." --Ernest Branah "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, but when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity." --George Benard Shaw "There was a young lady of Riga; who rode with the smile on a tiger; they retirned for the ride; and the smile on the face of the tiger." --Langford Reed "Or if sometime roaming around, a noble wild beast greets you with black stripes with a yellow ground, just notice if he eats you. This simple rule may help you learn, the Bengal tiger to discern." --Carolyn Well |
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