Slight Risk

Famous quotes containing the words slight and/or risk:

    “A Cat
    I keep, that playes about my House,
    Grown fat,
    With eating many a miching Mouse.
    To these
    A Trasy I do keep, whereby
    I please
    The more my rurall privacie:
    Which are
    But toyes, to give my heart some ease:
    Where care
    None is, slight things do lightly please.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either a saint or a mediocrity.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)