Quotes About Risk

As you all know, Security Is Mortals chiefest Enemy.

Who dares not stir by day must walk by night.

You must take your chance.

Life's an Unceartian Voyage

But come what may, I do adore thee so That danger shall seem sport, and I will go!

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure?

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before

There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result

Quidquid Amor Jussit, Non Est Contemnere Tutum.

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.

Sapevo che era carina Sapevo che era sposata Mio padre disse, per legge ti è vietata Vidi che era impudente L'amore no non sente Non avevo mai visto una malizia così avventata. Senza una speranza vera Andai da lei una sera: In amore come in guerra, la libertà ti è data. I miei pensieri buoni svaniti in un momento Non mi fermò nessun avvertimento Non avevo mai visto una malizia così

You see people every day who take a chance and damn the consequences. Many of them suffer for it, but I do not think they come off worst. The people who come off worst are the people who draw back at the last moment and spend the rest of their lives regretting it.

like a pall. One wonders how Wesley dared to go there.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

In war all repetitions are perilous. You can do many things with impunity if you do not keep on doing them over and over again.

Thus we see a succession of partisan actions continuing without intermission for nearly twenty years, each injury repeated with interest, each oscillation more violent, each risk more grave, until at last it seemed that the sabre itself must be invoked to cool the blood and the passions that were rife.

Mr. Jorrocks has described fox hunting as providing all the glory of war with only thirty-five percent of its danger.

they meant to test the ground; and in so doing they were prepared to go to the very edge of the precipice. It is so easy to lose one's balance there: a touch, a gust of wind, a momentary dizziness, and all is precipitated into the abyss.

There is great danger in trying to have things both ways.