Innovations are dangerous. [ Proverb ]
Still people are dangerous. [ La Fontaine ]
All delays are dangerous in war. [ Dryden ]
To be of no Church is dangerous. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Gifts from enemies are dangerous. [ Proverb ]
Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. [ Proverb ]
Silent anguish is the more dangerous. [ Racine ]
Wit ill applied is a dangerous weapon. [ Proverb ]
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice. [ Daniel ]
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. [ Selden ]
Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous. [ German Proverb ]
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. [ William Shakespeare ]
A little learning is a dangerous thing:
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. [ Alexander Pope ]
Ornament is but the gilded shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. [ William Shakespeare ]
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tried. [ Stirling — Doomes-day. The Fifth Houre ]
Zeal, when it is a virtue, is a dangerous one. [ Proverb ]
A journey were better too long than dangerous. [ Proverb ]
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores,
Of will and judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master. [ Bouheurs ]
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. [ Roscommon ]
Any confidence is dangerous that is not complete. [ La Bruyere ]
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. [ Dumas, Fils ]
The wound that bleeds inwardly is most dangerous. [ Proverb ]
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. [ Tacitus ]
A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw. [ Proverb ]
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
There is no person who is not dangerous for some one. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]
All fame is dangerous: good, brings Envy; bad, shame. [ Proverb ]
Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous. [ Proverb ]
An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies. [ Publius Syrus ]
In society mediocrity is not alone dangerous, it is fatal. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
The love of the wicked is more dangerous than there hatred. [ Proverb ]
It is generous to bear an injury, but dangerous to requite it. [ Proverb ]
It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. [ Rojas ]
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities wound, but they are better. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
The most dangerous flattery is the inferiority of those who surround us. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
No experiment is dangerous the result of which we have the courage to meet. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Our flatterers are our most dangerous enemies, and yet often lie in our bosoms. [ Proverb ]
Better to know the darker sides of life, than to slumber in dangerous illusions. [ De Finod ]
Eyes and ears, two trade pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will and Judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.
Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. [ Quarles ]
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. [ Richardson ]
Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. [ Gregory ]
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. [ Colton ]
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. [ Amiel ]
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. [ Blanco White ]
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. [ Montaigne ]
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. [ Mrs. E. B. Browning ]
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. [ Froude ]
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. [ La Fontaine ]
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. [ Jeremy Collier ]
The most dangerous weakness of old people who have been amiable is to forget they are no longer so. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. [ Zoroaster ]
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. [ Bovee ]
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. [ Johnson ]
Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded; the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction. [ Eliza Cook ]
It is dangerous to say to the people that their laws are unjust, for they obey them only because they believe them just. [ Pascal ]
It is an awfully dangerous thing to come across a woman who thoroughly understands one. They always end by marrying one. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies. [ De Varennes ]
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief: it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. [ Amiel ]
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. [ Horace ]
Although it is dangerous to have too much knowledge of certain subjects, it is still more dangerous to be totally ignorant of them. [ Colombat ]
It is dangerous to discover the faults or weaknesses of certain persons: they never forgive us the knowledge of these secret ulcers. [ De Finod ]
Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. [ Hooker ]
Perfection does not exist. To understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. [ Alfred de Musset ]
Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (President Snow) ]
It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
In your friendship and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. [ Chesterfield ]
Discouragement is a passion, the most dangerous of all: it takes from us all our arms, all our forces, and abandons us without pity to the snares of voluptuousness. [ Alfred Mercier ]
It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. [ Phaedr ]
Let me have men about me that are fat; sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights; yonder Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [ William Shakespeare ]
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Extremes are dangerous: a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. [ Swinnock ]
The last word
is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. [ Gladstone ]
He was given to flights of oratory that way - a very dangerous thing, for often the wings which take one into clouds of oratorical enthusiasm are wax and melt up there, and down you come. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it: it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]
The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison. [ Voltaire ]
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator. [ Colton ]
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]
Yorick sometime?, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind, too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. [ Sterne ]
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me.
That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]