Cliff Walks

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. - English Proverb

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. - John Cleveland

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

Beware the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst. - Sylvia Porter

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. - Walter Lippmann

Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of. - Andrew Lang

An optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul Richter

Can we be casual in the work of God—casual when the house is on fire, and people in danger of being burned? - Duncan Campbell

It's because you're scared that there's danger.
But could she manage not to be scared anymore? - Johanna Verweerd

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. - C S Lewis

A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises. - Euripides

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo

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

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

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

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

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