Bridge Claimed Another One

Praise the bridge that carried you over. - George Colman

Defendit numerus: There is safety in numbers. - Unknown

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus

Don't risk more than you can afford to lose. - Joe Segal

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Unknown

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

Safety Belt: The one you don't drink before driving home - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S Patton

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. - Robert Benchley

The traveler with empty pockets pursues his journey in perfect safety. - Ovid

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T S Eliot

I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades

I don't have lungs anymore. Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day. - Dylan Moran

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Frederick Wilcox

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. - George Burns

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. - Frederick Crane

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller

People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. - Brian Halligan

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face. - Cate Blanchett

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. - Denis Waitley

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. - Bill Gates

Animals are not our selfie props. If there's any risk that your photo is going to hurt or stress an animal, it's not worth it. - Angela Henderson

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. - Peter Barris

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates! - Dave Barry

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B.C. Forbes

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. - Neil Simon

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. - George Herbert

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. - Peter F Drucker