Safest

Famous quotes containing the word safest:

“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)

“Can love be controlled by advice?
Will Cupid our mothers obey?
Though my heart were as frozen as ice,
At his flame ‘twould have melted away.
When he kissed me so closely he pressed,
‘Twas so sweet that I must have complied:
So I thought it both safest and best
To marry, for fear you should chide.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“It is safest to be moderately base—to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)