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"Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." »Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
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"Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I have often been downcast, but never in despair I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments." »Anne Frank
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"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means." »Lee C. Bollinger
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." »Pablo Picasso
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"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one." »Alexandre Dumas
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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening." »Gertrude Stein
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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger." »Thomas Huxley
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." »Voltaire
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"Blind belief is dangerous." »Kenyan Proverb
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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." »George Bernard Shaw
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"An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing." »P Barnum
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"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute." »John P. Grier
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"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable." »Cyril Connolly
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." »Bob Edwards
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"It's a dangerous business going out your front door." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Ignorance is a dangerous and dreadful disease." »Jacqueline Job
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous." »Alfred Alder
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." »Bob Edwards
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world." »John le Carre
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." »Mark Twain
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"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence." »James Russell Lowell
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"Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"All confidence is dangerous unless it is complete; there are few circumstances in which it is not better either to hide all or to tell all." »La Bruy?re
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