How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.2,'The Pool of  Tears'.

   An appeaser is someone who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Attributed. Quoted in Reader's Digest, Dec1954.

SoTomwent homewith Ellie†and heisnowa great man of science†and knows everything about everything, except whya hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things which no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues. And all this fromwhat helearnt whenhewas awater-baby, underneaththesea. 'And of course,Tom married Ellie?'My dear child, what a silly notion! Don't you know that no one ever marries in a fairy tale, under the rank of a prince or a princess?

-Kingsley, Charles
  The Water Babies, ch.8.

One day he missed his loving bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten byan alligator. ProfessorTwist could not but smile. 'You mean,' he said,'a crocodile.'

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  The Face Is Familiar,'The Purist'.

To sit back hoping that some day, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping that he will eat you lastöbut eat you he will.

-Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  CBS News,7 Nov.