Danger

"The number two risk factor is that this business gets the wrong management. And you get a guy or a woman in charge of it that are presentable — the directors like 'em — they don't what they're doing — but they know how to put on an appearance. That's the biggest single danger."

"Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!"

"I have not quailed to danger's brow When high and happy—need I now?"

"A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms."

"Danger reawakens the spirit."

"Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger — according to the way you react to it."

"What a sea Of melting ice I walk on!"

"For though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I something in me dangerous."

"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."

"We have scotched the snake, not killed it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of our former tooth."

"When I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother."

"Some of us will smart for it."

"Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed And I loved her that she did pity them."

"He is not worthy of the honeycomb That shuns the hives because the bees have stings."

"Passato il pericolo (or punto) gabbato il santo."

"Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall!"

"Insufficient facts always invite danger."

"Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini."

"It's dangerous to have fashion and power."

"Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fraga, Fridigus, O pueri, fugite hinc; latet anguis in herba."

"Time flies, Death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens."

"We have turned into highly dangerous beings, capable of threatening the lives of many beings and our own survival."

"Anguis sub viridi herba."

"The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be; But when he got well, a wolf once more was he."

"In summo periculo timor misericordiam non recipit."

"Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."

"Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern."

"Quo tendis inertem Rex periture, fugam? Nescis heu, perdite! nescis Quem fugias; hostes incurris, dum fugis hostem. Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."

"For all on a razor's edge it stands."

"Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ Tractas, et incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso."

"Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cantum est in horas."

"Multos in summa pericula misit Venturi timor ipse mali."

"'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant, But over its terrible edge there had slipped A Duke and full many a peasant, So the people said something would have to be done, But their projects did not at all tally. Some said: "Put a fence round the edge of the cliff." Some: "An ambulance down in the valley.""

"Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for … the destruction that wasteth at noonday."

"Ægrotat Dæmon; monachus tunc esse volebat, Dæmon convaluit; Dæmon ante fuit."

"Sur un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit leurs pas, Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface, Glissez mortels; n'appuyez pas."

"Scit eum sine gloria vinci, qui sine periculo vincitur."

"Contemptum periculorum assiduitas periclitandi dabit."

"Il n'y a personne qui ne soit dangereux pour quelqu'un."

"It is no jesting with edge tools."

"Caret periculo qui etiam tutus cavet."

"Citius venit periculum, cum contemnitur."