DANGER

Related Subjects: Adventure, Boldness, Risk, Warning

1. Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.—RICHARD BAXTER, Love Breathing Thanks
   

2. Oh pilot, 'tis a fearful night!
   There's danger on the deep.—T. H. BAYLY, The Pilot
   

3. I have not quailed to danger's brow
   When high and happy—need I now?—BYRON, The Giaour
   

4. In extreme danger, fear turns a deaf ear to every feeling of pity.—CAESAR, Commentaries
   

5. Danger, the spur of all great minds.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, Bussy d'Ambois
   

6. As soon as there is life there is danger.—EMERSON, Lectures
   

7. Danger gleams
   Like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.—EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Tauris
   

8. Dangers foreseen are the sooner prevented.—RICHARD FRANCK, Northern Memoirs
   

9. He that bringeth himself into needless dangers, dieth the devil's martyr.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy War
   

10. See what perils do environ
    Those who meddle with hot iron.—GALSWORTHY
    

11. Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
    

12. Ye gentlemen of England
    That live at home at ease,
    Ah! little do you think upon
    The dangers of the seas.—MARTYN PARKER, Song
    

13. 'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed,
    Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant,
    But over its terrible edge there had slipped
    A Duke and full many a peasant,
    So the people said something would have to be done,
    But their projects did not at all tally.
    Some said: "Put a fence round the edge of the cliff."
    Some: "An ambulance down in the valley."—JOSEPH MALINES
    

14. If thy hand be in a lion's mouth, get it out as fast as thou canst.—Proverb
    

15. The danger past and God forgotten.—Proverb
    

16. Beware of a silent dog and still water.—Proverb
    

17. He that seeks danger perisheth therein unpitied.—Proverb
    

18. Better face a danger once than be always in fear.—Proverb
    

19. Dangers are overcome by dangers.—Proverb

20. Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.—SENECA, De Providentia
    

21. Blind panic is incapable of providing even for its own safety, for it does not avoid danger but runs away. Yet we are more exposed to danger when we turn our backs.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
    

22. No one can with safety expose himself often to danger. The man who has often escaped is caught at last.—SENECA, Hercules Furens
    

23. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

24. The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis