There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system so they'll have their day in court.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.