Quotes About Peril

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

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.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

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

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

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

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

Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

A man can get killed in there.

Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.