“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American sportswriter
Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India http://books.google.com/books?ei=hCIHT_v4Bqbu0gGz0YWMAw&id=T1gOAAAAYAAJ&q="Appeasers+believe+that+if+you+keep+on+throwing+steaks+to+a+tiger+the+tiger+will+become+a+vegetarian"&pg=PA268#v=onepage (1942)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
"Armistice - or Peace?", published in The Evening Standard (11 November 1937).
The 1930s
Maneka Gandhi (1956) Indian politician and activist
On poaching of tigers in India, as quoted in "Hunting down the hunter: A dying breed" http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/hunting-down-the-hunter-a-dying-breed-473821.html, The Independent (12 April 2006) <br class="br">2001-2010
“So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“The tiger has arrived at Gap.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Le Moniteur Universel, March 11, 1815.
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Variant: The Emperor has arrived at Fontainbleau.