When danger approaches, sing to it.
—Arabic Proverb
Courage in danger is half the battle.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright
It is not manly to turn one’s back on fortune.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
—Pierre Corneille (1606–84) French Poet, Dramatist
It is the business of the future to be dangerous…. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English Mathematician, Philosopher
Silent water is dangerous water.
—Spanish Proverb
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
When the danger is past God is cheated.
—Italian Proverb
To be alive at all involves some risk.
—Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British Head of State
Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Out of debt, out of danger.
—Common Proverb
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
—Pierre Corneille (1606–84) French Poet, Dramatist
Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Danger past, God forgotten.
—Common Proverb
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
—Scottish Proverb
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
—Unknown
It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one’s own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
Security will produce danger.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
—Harvey Fierstein (b.1952) American Actor, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
Dangers by being despised grow great.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
—Chinese Proverb
Unless you enter the tiger’s den you cannot take the cubs.
—Japanese Proverb
He that is not in the war is not out of danger.
—Unknown