I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their p...leasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling--and indeed healthy--to ask why you have b...een given so much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:... There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1st Murderer. Where's thy conscience now?... 2nd Murderer. I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward.... It fills a ma...n full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned s...oul in hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »