Cliff Walks

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. - English Proverb

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. - Jane Goodall

There is always danger for those who are afraid. - George Bernard Shaw

Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. - Horace

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. - Gustav Mahler

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. - Alfred Adler

NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable. - Mitch Hedberg

Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe. - James M. Barrie

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. - Carl Perkins

A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse. - American Proverb

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. - Steven Tyler

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. - Henry George

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. - Petrarch

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. - Mahesh Yogi

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls! - Reif Larsen

We should be as water, which is lower than all things yet stronger even than the rocks. - Sioux Proverb

There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying. - Nick Vujicic

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. - David McCord

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas Henry Huxley

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. - G K Chesterton

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. - Sarah J. Hale

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. - Eric Fromm

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller

I am one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. - Martin Sheen

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. - Keith Ablow

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. - Sydney Harris

To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission. - Jonathan Van Ness

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. - Sherman Alexie

There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. - Frank L Baum

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. - Albert Camus

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F Kennedy

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. - Earl Nightingale

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. - Thucydides