James Thurber Quotes

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Extremes are dangerous.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

Didn't I tell you so? What good did your moderation do you? If you don't kill the beast, it will kill you

We cannot play with fear nor with too much confidence.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Hew not too high, lest the chips fall in thine eye.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.