Quotes
Quotes about Danger
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et commune periculum, Una salus ambobus erit.]
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
I was learning the importance of namesâ having them, making themâbut at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.
They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear.
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
I take to-day a wife, and my election Is led on in the conduct of my will-- My will enkindled my by mine and ears Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.
Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
I was learning the importance of namesâ having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
