Famous quotes containing the word dangerous:
“One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“I dont know but a book in a mans brain is better off than a book bound in calfat any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panelyou have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancementin a word, with more renunciation than you care forand so you flee the contagion.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)