The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.
Poetry is talking on tiptoe.
You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.
Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips
Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.