Danger
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
-- Jean Paul Richter
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
-- Thomas Huxley
- The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
-- William Lloyd George
- We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
-- David Sarnoff
- As soon as there is life there is danger.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers
- If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
- There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
-- C. C. Phelps
- We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
-- Corneille
- We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.
-- Raymond G. Swing
- The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
-- Lucan
- The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
-- Marquise de Sévigné
- Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
-- Hugh Walpole
Death
- In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
-- John James Ingalls
- Tis after death that we measure men.
-- James Barron Hope
- Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
-- A. Sachs
- I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Winston Churchill
- Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
-- William Mitford
- Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
-- Walter Scott
- To stop sinning suddenly.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-- Mark Twain
- Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
-- Henry Van Dyke
- Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
-- Seneca
- I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
-- Joyce Cary
- The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
-- Lucan
- We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
-- Mark Twain
- Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
-- Proverb
- Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
-- Thomas F. Healey
- I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
-- Hugh Hamilton
- God's finger touched him, and he slept.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
- He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
-- William Penn
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
-- Bertrand Russell
- How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
-- Eric Hoffer
- Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
-- William Shakespeare
- Most people would rather die than think: many do.
-- Bertrand Russell
Debt
- Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- A man in debt is so far a slave.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A church debt is the devil's salary.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
-- Jesse H. Jones
- Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- Never spend your money before you have it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
-- Wendell Phillips
- Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
-- George D. Prentice
- Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
-- George Herbert
- Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
-- Ogden Nash
- Debt is the worst poverty.
-- Thomas Fuller
- Debt is the slavery of the free.
-- Publilius Syrus
- A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
-- Publilius Syrus
- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
-- Austin O'Malley
- A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- He who promises runs in debt.
-- The Talmud
Deceit
- Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
-- Homer
- All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
-- Robert South
- Every crowd has a silver lining.
-- P. T. Barnum
- It is double the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
-- Jean de la Fontaine
- You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
-- Mark Twain
Decency
- No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
-- Chamfort
- We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.
-- R. W. Riis
- Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
-- H. L. Mencken
Decision
- All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
-- Marcel Proust
- Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
-- Gene Fowler
- When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
-- William B. Given, Jr.
- We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
-- Jonathan Westover
- It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
-- Laurence J. Peter
- I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone.
-- Bernard Gilpin
- The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Declaration of Independence
- We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Defeat
- Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry
- Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
-- Will Rogers
- Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
-- Michel de Montaigne
- Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.
-- A. H. K. Boyd
- In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
-- Winston Churchill
- What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
-- Wendell Phillips
- The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
-- Winston Churchill
- Many a good man I have seen go under.
-- Walt Whitman
- Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels
- Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
-- Ernest Hemingway
- It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
-- Vergil
- Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.
-- Robert South
- I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
-- Wendell L. Willkie
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