And rash enthusiasm in good society
Were nothing but a moral inebriety. [ Byron ]
Nature has made man's breast no windows
To publish what he does within doors,
Nor what dark secrets there inhabit,
Unless his own rash folly blab it. [ Butler ]
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 ]
None are rash when they are not seen by anybody. [ Stanislaus ]
O, reputation! dearer far than life.
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell.
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness. [ Sewell ]
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. [ Roger Ascham ]
The conquered is never called wise, nor the conqueror rash. [ Proverb ]
Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt. [ Dr. John ]
Rash presumption is a ladder which will break the mounter's neck. [ Proverb ]
Rash combat oft immortalizes man. If he should fall, he is renowned in song. [ Goethe ]
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? [ Addison ]
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. [ Goethe ]
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better. [ Quarles ]