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| It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~ Machiavelli |
| Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. ~ Baltasar Gracian |
But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu, |
| Venus favors the bold. ~ Ovid |
| I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. ~ Michel de Montaigne |
| Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~ Francis Bacon |
| Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Freedom lies in being bold. ~ Robert Frost |
| Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. ~ Oscar Wilde, |
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| Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~ John Dryden |
| The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~ Theodore Roosevelt |
| He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~ Baltasar Gracian |
| He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ~ Jonathan Swift |