Danger

Ay me! what perils do environThe man that meddles with cold iron!

— Danger

I have not quailed to danger's browWhen high and happy—need I now?

— Danger

A daring pilot in extremity;He sought the storms.

— Danger

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.

— Danger

What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!

— Danger

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

— Danger

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

— Danger

We have scotched the snake, not killed it:Remains in danger of our former tooth.

— Danger

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

— Danger

Some of us will smart for it.

— Danger

Upon this hint I spake;And I loved her that she did pity them.

— Danger

He is not worthy of the honeycombThat shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

— Danger

Ay me, how many perils doe enfoldThe righteous man to make him daily fall!

— Danger

It's dangerous to have fashion and power.

— Danger

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

— Danger

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

— Danger

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

— Danger

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.

— Danger

Quo tendis inertemIncidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.

— Danger

For all on a razor's edge it stands.

— Danger

'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, Some: "An ambulance down in the valley."

— Danger

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

— Danger

It is no jesting with edge tools.

— Danger