“One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.”
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“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
"Armistice - or Peace?", published in The Evening Standard (11 November 1937).
The 1930s
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Introduction
The allusion to the "tigers of wrath" and "horses of instruction" is from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Proverbs of Hell
The Portable Matthew Arnold (Viking Press, 1949)
Context: Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.
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“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Heywood Broun
(1888–1939) American sportswriter
Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India http://books.google.com/books?ei=hCIHT_v4Bqbu0gGz0YWMAw&id=T1gOAAAAYAAJ&q="Appeasers+believe+that+if+you+keep+on+throwing+steaks+to+a+tiger+the+tiger+will+become+a+vegetarian"&pg=PA268#v=onepage (1942)
Maneka Gandhi
(1956) Indian politician and activist
On poaching of tigers in India, as quoted in "Hunting down the hunter: A dying breed" http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/hunting-down-the-hunter-a-dying-breed-473821.html, The Independent (12 April 2006)
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“The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim.
~Wren”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
(1965) Novelist
Source: Unleash the Night
