“No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
Mark Twain
“Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway”
The Talmud
“The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage”
Plato
“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
Stephen King
“It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.”
Henry Louis Mencken
