
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”
In Reader's Digest (December 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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Winston S. Churchill 601
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965Related quotes


“The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.”
As cited in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 90
“To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”
Source: North of Beautiful

“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”

This quotation has been misattributed to Laozi; its origin is actually unknown (see "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" on Wiktionary). This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius and Guan Zhong.
Misattributed
“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)