quotations about danger
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
OSCAR WILDE
The importance of Being Earnest
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, January 27, 1838
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.
R. D. LAING
The Divided Self
To be dexterous in danger is a virtue; but to court danger to show it, is weakness.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Mademoiselle Panache
Highway to the danger zone
Gonna take you right into the danger zone
KENNY LOGGINS
"Danger Zone"
We are generally either near or far from danger.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Always a bed out west in Cali
But I need to survive
On the path to find the glory
In dangerous times
THE CHARLATANS
"City of the Dead"
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.
MATTHEW HENRY
Commentaries
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
These are dangerous times
And if I take some chances
Put my heart on the line
What would you do to me
If I give myself up
To these circumstances
In these dangerous times
Would you keep me safely
CHER
"Dangerous Times"
He is not worthy of the honeycomb
That shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
GEORGE PEELE & ROBERT GREENE
The Tragedy of Locrine
When the danger's past the saint is cheated.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Pantagruel
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man to make him daily fall!
EDMUND SPENSER
The Faerie Queene
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.
AESOP
"The Two Travellers and the Axe", Aesop's Fables
You cannot catch a cub without going into the tiger's den.
CHINESE PROVERB
Gimme danger, little stranger
And I feel with you at ease
Gimme danger, little stranger
And I'll feel your disease
IGGY & THE STOOGES
"Gimme Danger"
I think I am very brave, upon the whole. If danger comes near my dwelling, I suppose I shall shudder.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
letter to John Adams, June 22, 1775