Advice to children crossing the street: Damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
—Jackie "Moms" Mabley
You are out of danger," he said. I laughed and said, "How can I be? I don't feel dead yet.
—Margaret Laurence
I have every sympathy with the American [smoker] who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
—Henry G. Strauss
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
—Woody Allen
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
—Duke Ellington
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
—Alexandre Dumas
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut
Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.
—Sean Beaudoin in You Killed Wesley Payne
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
—John Benfield
There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.
—David Lloyd George
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.
—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent