Famous quotes containing the word venture:
“He has no venture in the present.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our venture in revolution and outlawry
Has justified itself in freedom’s story
Right down to now in glory upon glory.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Writing, when properly managed ... is but a different name for conversation: As no one ... would venture to talk all;Mso no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding, would presume to think all: The truest respect which you can pay to the reader’s understanding, is to ... leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)