Perilous
Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.
Daring; reckless; dangerous.
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Perilous Quotations
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann
Perilous Translations
perilous in Swedish is farlig
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