Danger Quotes
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Aesop
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Arabian Proverb
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
Aristotle
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Bacon, Francis
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds he will all fast asleep.
Burke, Edmund
Dangers by being despised grow great.
Byron, Lord
Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need.
Churchill, Winston
Danger--if you meet it promptly and without flinching--you will reduce by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Corneille
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Daniel, Samuel
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
de Balzac, Honore
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Franklin, Benjamin
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
George, William Lloyd
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
Greek Proverb
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Kennedy, John F.
The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.
King Jr., Martin Luther
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Laberius, Decimus
That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.
Lucan
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Nehru, Jawaharlal
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Niebuhr, Reinhold
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Quarles
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Richter, Jean Paul
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Shaw, George Bernard
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
Thatcher, Margaret
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Live dangerously and you live right.
Wallenda, Karl
Being on a tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
Walpole, Hugh
Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.