Quotes About Danger

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.