Quotes
Quotes about Danger
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
Delays have dangerous ends.
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Though I am not splenitive and rash,
Yet have I something in me dangerous.
And often did beguile her of her tears,
When I did speak of some distressful stroke
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs;
She swore, in faith, 't was strange, 't was passing strange,
'T was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful;
She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
That Heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story,
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used.
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
A daring pilot in extremity;
Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high
He sought the storms.
All delays are dangerous in war.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
The meteor flag of England
Shall yet terrific burn,
Till danger's troubled night depart,
And the star of peace return.
Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some gleams of glory; but the British soldier conquered under the cool shade of aristocracy. No honours awaited his daring, no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his countrymen; his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed.
He who hath bent him o'er the dead
Ere the first day of death is fled,--
The first dark day of nothingness,
The last of danger and distress,
Before decay's effacing fingers
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.
There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in,
Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.
Oh pilot, 't is a fearful night!
There's danger on the deep.
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
All your strength is in your union
All your danger is in discord;
Therefore be at peace henceforward,
And as brothers live together.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Literature--the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer!
List, ye landsmen all, to me;
Messmates, hear a brother sailor
Sing the dangers of the sea.
