Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the…

“It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

— Winston Churchill

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will…

— Winston Churchill

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

— Pyotr Kapitsa

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

— Louis Kahn

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

— Ambrose Bierce

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

— Steve Irwin

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

— Anton Chekhov

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

— Megan McCafferty

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That…

— Alex Haley

To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

— Peter Kreeft

Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the…

— John Naughton

Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with…

— Rick Riordan

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get…

— Tori Amos

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

— Bill Haley