
“If you don’t look for snakes, you cannot complain when one bites you.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Il brigante è come la serpe, se non la stuzzichi non ti morde.
As quoted in Voci dall'ergastolo, E. Loescher, 1903, by Romolo Ribolla
Il brigante è come la serpe, se non la stuzzichi non ti morde.
citato in Voci dall'ergastolo
“If you don’t look for snakes, you cannot complain when one bites you.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Other
“[T]here's no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They'll both bite.”
Lewis
Neil A.
June 29, 1991
Marshall Urges Bush to Pick 'the Best'
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/29/us/marshall-urges-bush-to-pick-the-best.html
2017-04-08
MIsquote: White snake, black snake: They both bite.
Variant: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”
Source: Complete Poems
“You have to give it (the tiger) room. If you don't give it room, it will bite you.”
(4 January 2005; seen as a veiled threat to politicians not to interfere with the military).
2000, 2005