Boldness is ever blind; for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~Francis Bacon


The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~Theodore Roosevelt


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; translated


Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group; and perhaps life couldn't either. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


Freedom lies in being bold. ~Robert Frost


Venus favors the bold. ~Ovid


Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. ~Oscar Wilde; A Woman of No Importance; 1894


He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ~Jonathan Swift


Boldness is a mask for fear; however great. ~John Dryden


Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. ~Baltasar Gracian


He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead; for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracian