It doesn't take much to step on some toes.
From The Fears That Bind, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A woman on the bench by the library fed the pigeons this morning, and one of them, a gray hen with a bad foot, got crowded off the bread by a bird half her size. He did not even mean it. He landed where she was standing, which is what landing is. For years I thought offense took effort, that a person had to wind up and aim; I watched a flock for an hour and saw that it doesn't take much to step on some toes, and that the stepping is mostly just somebody arriving. The hen hopped twice and went back in. Switch says this is why he keeps to the branches, where there is room, but I have seen him knock acorns onto a dog.
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.
Have it on something
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.
- A hungry tiger is patient only when waiting for the best moment to attack.
- People fight hardest to defend their right not to say what they are fighting about.