Present Danger Test

Famous quotes containing the words present, danger and/or test:

    “When winter snows upon thy sable hairs,
    And frost of age hath nipped thy beauties near;
    When dark shall seem thy day that never clears,
    And all lies withered that was held so dear,
    Then take this picture which I here present thee,
    Limned with a pencil not all unworthy;”
    —Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

    “The shallowest still water is unfathomable. Wherever the trees and skies are reflected, there is more than Atlantic depth, and no danger of fancy running aground.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)