Quotes About Peril

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

Courage means willing to risk everything.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

I told you, I don't want you riding with me. Which is why I waited, Frieze explained patiently. To see what direction you were going in, so that I could make sure I took the opposite one. but of course, there may be wolves, or thieves, highwaymen or brigands, so I don't mind your company for the first hour or so.

These were simple people: when someone told them that they had nothing to fear they knew that they were in trouble.

Was Agent XOX to die a drowning death? You let go of her! came Eddie's voice, and suddenly Eddie had one arm, Beth the other, and they were pulling her the other way. Back and forth, back and forth. Secret Agent XOX was going to die a stretching death instead. Torn limb from limb.

We're dead," said Wally. "We are cooked! Fried!