May Quote by Ernest Bramah Download Open image “One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.” — Ernest Bramah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Tigers
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch. — Tug McGraw Copy Share Image
When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
“There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
“The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
