“I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 28.
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“The playful nip denotes the bite, but it does not denote what would be denoted by the bite.”
From Part 4, section 2: A Theory of Play and Fantasy
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)

No. 24. (Rica writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”

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.