Alexander Pope Quotes

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

Only a fool is not afraid.

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.