Quotes of Perilous - somelinesforyou

“ Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. ”

- Voltaire

“ I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ”

- Ouida

“ The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising bath swallowed up their fear of a fall. ”

- Thomas Adams

“ Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. ”

- Hippocrates

“ Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ”

- Confucius

“ Luxury: more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ”

- Hannah More

“ Life is a perilous voyage. ”

- Unknown

“ A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”

- David C. McCullough

“ Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. ”

- Anita Loos
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