Fortune helps the bold. [ Virgil ]
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring. [ Bayard Taylor ]
He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all. [ Marquis of Montrose ]
I dare do all that may become a man,
Who dares do more is none. [ William Shakespeare ]
By daring, great fears are concealed. [ Lucan ]
Great fear is concealed under daring. [ Lucan ]
Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold. [ Tibullus ]
No crime is so great as daring to excel. [ Churchill ]
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. [ Homer ]
And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. [ Lowell ]
There is nothing more daring than Ignorance. [ Menander ]
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. [ Homer ]
He alone can claim this name, who writes
With fancy high, and bold and daring flights. [ Horace ]
No one reaches a high position without daring. [ Syrus ]
The wise and active conquer difficulties,
By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly
Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazards,
And make the impossibility they fear. [ Rowe ]
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash.
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash -
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill:
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. [ Crabbe ]
For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit,
Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. [ Butler ]
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. [ Lucan ]
A daring pilot in extremity;
Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit,
Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide; [ Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ]
Be bold! first gate;
Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold, second gate;
Be not too bold! third gate. [ Spenser, Faerie Queen, Book III, Inscription on the Gates of Busyrane ]
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. [ Lava ter ]
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. [ Livy ]
By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels. [ Savage ]
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. [ Horace ]
Nothing can check his watchful daring. For him the summer has no heat, the winter no ice. [ Boileau of Louis XIV ]
Daring to face all hardships, the human race dashes through every human and divine restraint. [ Horace ]
Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring man, often means - angel!
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess. [ Tuckerman ]
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. [ Ovid ]
An atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation, - a condemner of God, who explodes His laws by denying His existence. [ John Foster ]
Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete. [ Goethe ]
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and command the mind; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love; in martial scenes it rouses the soul to fearless deeds of daring and valor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. [ Acton ]