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Daring: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A decent boldness ever meets with friends. C.— HOMER — The Odyssey. Pope's trans. Bk. 7. L. 67.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.— HOMER — The Odyssey. Pope's trans. Bk. II. L. 312.

And what they dare to dream of, dare to do.— LOWELL — Ode Recited at the Harvard

Commemoration. July 21, 1865. St. 3. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all.— MARQUIS OF MONTROSE — My Dear and

Only Love. Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.— WILLIAM B. RHODES — Bombastes Furioso. Act I. Sc. 4.

And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? ScoTT-Marmion. Canto VI. St. 14. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.— SCOTT — The Bloody Vest. See Talisman. Ch. XXVI.

What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. IV. L. 99.

Be bolde, be bolde, and everywhere, be bolde.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto XI. St. 54.

In rebus asperis et tenui spe fortissima Omnia mors æquat. quæque consilia tutissima sunt. In great straits and when hope is small, . the boldest counsels are the safest.— LIVY — Annales. XXV. 38.

Audendo magnus tegitur timor. By daring, great fears are concealed.— LUCAN — Pharsalia. IV. 702.

Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum. No one reaches a high position without daring.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Audendum est; fortes adjuvat ipsa Venus. Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold.— TIBULLUS — Carmina. I. 2. 16.

Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune helps the bold.— VIRGIL — Eneid. X. 284.