Quotes About Risk

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.