Safe Quotes

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Hopper)
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. View quote
Aesop
The coward threatens when he is safe. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. View quote
William Davenant
I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. View quote
Norman Mailer
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. View quote
Sophia Loren
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. View quote
U Thant
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. View quote
William O. Douglas
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. View quote
Edmund Burke
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. View quote
Alan Greenspan
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. (Jane Austen)
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke - it deprives a man of the best part of life ... with a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him - literally. View quote
Thomas Mann
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself. View quote
Thomas More
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it. View quote
H. L. Mencken
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. View quote
Learned Hand