Quotes About Risk

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!

Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!

Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!

Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

Let every man look before he leaps.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!