All Quotes by Danger
“Ay me! what perils do environThe man that meddles with cold iron!”
“I have not quailed to danger's browWhen high and happy—need I now?”
“A daring pilot in extremity;He sought the storms.”
“Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger — according to the way you react to it.”
“What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!”
“For though I am not splenitive and rash,Yet have I something in me dangerous.”
“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
“We have scotched the snake, not killed it:Remains in danger of our former tooth.”
“When I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.”
“Some of us will smart for it.”
“Upon this hint I spake;And I loved her that she did pity them.”
“He is not worthy of the honeycombThat shuns the hives because the bees have stings.”
“Ay me, how many perils doe enfoldThe righteous man to make him daily fall!”
“It's dangerous to have fashion and power.”
“Time flies, Death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.”
“The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be;But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.”
“Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”
“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.”
“Quo tendis inertemIncidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.”
“For all on a razor's edge it stands.”
“'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, Some: "An ambulance down in the valley."”
“Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for … the destruction that wasteth at noonday.”
“It is no jesting with edge tools.”