Present Danger

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or danger:

“In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, alack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?”
—Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)

“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)