"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 tiger’s 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 but the point is I don't want the tiger superseded.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 strength 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."
"If a man proves too 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 discussion."
"It is a proverbial that from a hungry tiger and an affectionate woman there is no escape."
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, but when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
"There was a young lady of Riga;
who rode with the smile on a tiger;
they returned for the ride;
and the smile on the face of the tiger."
"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."
"Shun the companionship of a tiger"
"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"
