A hungry tiger is patient only when waiting for the best moment to attack.
From The Fears That Bind, one of 284 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
More like it
- Two dogs alone have more fun than two dogs and a bone.
- Fight for every inch and you'll rarely move a foot.
- Rarely does all good sense dwell on one side of a fence.
- A cornered animal does not heed wise counsel.
- People fight hardest to defend their right not to say what they are fighting about.
- Louder isn't righter.