Safest

Famous quotes containing the word safest:

“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)

“The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure—tangible material prosperity in this world—is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)