Security,
Is mortals' chiefest enemy. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Security will produce danger. [ Johnson ]
Trust in God upon good security. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Danger is next neighbour to security. [ Proverb ]
And he that makes his soul his surety,
I think, does give the best security. [ Butler ]
Feebleness is sometimes the best security. [ Proverb ]
The first approach to riches is security from poverty. [ Johnson ]
Our own actions are our security, not others' judgments. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom. [ Kossuth ]
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. [ Danish Webster ]
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. [ Burke ]
Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. [ Ovid ]
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. [ Ik Marvel ]
Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good. [ Hannah More ]
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice, and the security of innocence. [ Adam Smith ]
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crash of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment and undermine security. [ Dr. Johnson ]
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. [ Fielding ]
It is in the relaxation of security, it is in the expansion of prosperity, it is in the hour of dilation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure that the real character of men is discerned. [ Burke ]
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 ]
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles - that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith - be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support. [ Southey ]