Cliff Walks

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. - English Proverb

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

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. - Neil Armstrong

Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare

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

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

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. - Horace

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

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

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

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

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. - George Burns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff. - Rodney Dangerfield

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

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

One would be in less danger
From the wiles of the stranger,
If one’s own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with. - Ogden Nash

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