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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

—Roche, Sir Boyle

The bright face of danger.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.

—Hawthorn, Mike

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back as a buzzard.Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

—Faulkner,William Harrison

There's death in the cupösae beware! Nay, moreöthere is danger in touching; But wha can avoid the fell snare? The man and his wine's sae bewitching!

—Burns, Robert

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger isalwaysthat hewill not recognize when he is dull.

—Auchincloss, Louis Stanton

In every city there is a group of middle-aged and elderly women who in fact run it. The extent to which they are formally organised is no gauge of their real power. The way in which they respond to danger is that gauge; and from the frankness with which they express their intentions can be measured the extent of the danger.

—Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler

A society†which is riven by a dozen oppositions along lines running in every direction, mayactually be in less danger of being torn with violence or falling to pieces than one split along just one line. For each new cleavage contributes to narrow the cross clefts, so that one might say that society is sewn together by its internal conflicts.

—Ross, Edward Alsworth

A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

—Austen,Jane

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

—Sandburg, Carl

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

—Chapman, George

This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore†we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.

—Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de' Conti di Segni

'Tis grown almost a danger to speak true Of any good mind, now:There are so few.

—Jonson, Ben

He has no faith in physic. He does think Most of your doctors are the greater danger, And worse disease, t'escape.

—Jonson, Ben

A'sound' banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoidsit, but onewho, whenheisruined, isruined in a conventional and orthodox wayalong with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

—Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron

Ninety-ninepercent of the people inthe world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

  Thegrouseare inno dangerat all from peoplewhoshoot grouse.

—Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going.Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

—Earhart, Amelia

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

That feeling of exhilaration which a measure of danger brings to the visitor with a return ticket.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

—Addison,Joseph

There can be no danger in sweetness and youth Where love is secured by good nature and truth, On her beauty I'll gaze, and of pleasure complain, While every kind look adds a link to my chain.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.

—Dryden,John

It is upon those who say that it is necessary to exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working classes [from the vote] toshowcause, and Iventuretosay that every manwho is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

—Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is a struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world standsmoment by moment on the razor-edge ofdangerand must be fought foröwhether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

Like dancers on the ropes poor poets fare, Most perish young, the rest in danger are.

—Etherege, Sir George

Neither run into any kind of danger.

—Book of Common Prayer

Thank Heaven! the crisisö The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at lastö And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. How else can one govern a country that produces 246 different types of cheese?

—de Gaulle, Charles

Whenindanger, ponder. Whenintrouble, delegate. And when in doubt, mumble.

—Wagner, Robert Ferdinand,Jr

One would be in less danger From the wiles of a stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden