Danger Quotes - Page 21

• The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gold, Treasure

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”

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• All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, War, Thinking

  Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1940

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• The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Strong, Fighting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group

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• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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• When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

  Leigh Hunt

  Lying, Mean, Evil

  Leigh Hunt (1851). “Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.37, Smith, Elder

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• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  Helen Keller

  Character, Support, Democracy

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• A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
  [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]

  George Herbert

  Glasses

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• Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

  George Herbert

  Remedy

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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• Danger will wink on opportunity.

  John Milton

  Opportunity

  John Milton (1839). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”

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• The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
  Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
  Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

  John Milton

  Husband, Wife, Endure

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.258

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• The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

  Thomas Paine

  Together, Disease, Lasts

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.64

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• The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
  [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]

  Sallust

  Fear, Men, Mind

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• To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

  Sallust

  Courage, Safety, Enemy

  Sallust (1896). “Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War”

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• When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Fire, People, House

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• It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

  Sophocles

  Looks, Woe

  Sophocles (1849). “The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr”, p.303

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• In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

  Adrienne Rich

  America, United States, Tense

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.70, Editorial Renacimiento

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• There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Ignorance, Government

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.40

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• The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

  William McKinley

  Country, Strong, Army

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• Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Painful, Contemplation

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• many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Bags, Sexuality, Garments

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• Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

  Gail Godwin

  Youth, Young, Extremes

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• One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Art, Quarrels, Thrown

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Singleness Of Purpose, Rights

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• Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.

  Francis Quarles

  Fall, Degrees, May

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.44

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• Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

  Francis Quarles

  Design, Balance, Genius

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