| Bernard Shaw - 1903 - 316 pages
...that breed their kind. Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport...the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. Whilst we have prisons it matters little which... | |
| Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1913 - 370 pages
..."Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity." " When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport...the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater." " Home is the girl's prison, and the woman's... | |
| Richard Burton - 1914 - 372 pages
...page memorable. Take this specimen, brief, pregnant, brilliant, chosen from " Man and Superman " : " When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport;...the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater." Or again, this from " The Doctor's Dilemma,"... | |
| Joseph McCabe - 1914 - 292 pages
...Barbara," especially, he inveighs against imprisonment. " When a man wants to murder a tiger," he says, " he calls it sport ; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater." He makes his meaning plainer by supposing... | |
| George B. Schaller - 2009 - 303 pages
...creatures will attack, giving the impression of being ferocious. It is as George Bernard Shaw commented: "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport;...the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity." CHAPTER 5 A Walk in the Forest While Summit scratched his head with a wooden five-pronged comb and... | |
| Joseph Telushkin - 1987 - 240 pages
...have their humble abode, it forms the sole topic of conversation." Walter Bryan (The Improbable Irish) When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw Hi, handsome hunting man Fire... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright,... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...(1820-78), English author. Duchess (Black Beauty's mother), in Black Beauty, pi. 1. ch. 2 (1877). 9 en would otherwise feel for the death of friends. MIGUEL D a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright,... | |
| Joanne Feierman - 1995 - 260 pages
...them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. (Anatole France) When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. (George Bernard Shaw) Rule 3. Use a semicolon to... | |
| Charles George Walker - 2000 - 203 pages
...like a lady's dress; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting.' Anon Sport When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.' George Bernard Shaw Strength What does not kill... | |
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