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The game is worth the candle. I will play it boldly and remorselessly. ~Leon Lewis (1833–1920), Found Guilty; or, The Hidden Crime, 1878
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 Gracián, translated from Spanish
But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
~Mary Wortley Montagu, The Answer
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, translated
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~Francis Bacon
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, A Woman of No Importance, 1894
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. ~Edmund Spenser
If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~John Dryden
Bold as an onion! ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~Theodore Roosevelt
I smile in unfear, in conscious potency. I come with yet more strength for the strong, with suage for the assuager. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "Songs of the Strong: III," A Soul's Faring, 1921
Your heart knows that sometimes it's okay to be a complete idiot. ~Kelly Johnson, August 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter
USA TODAY, April 2012: Bubba Watson won the 2012 Masters with the help of a pink PING G20 driver. He uses that color to promote cancer awareness and prevention. Tell us: Would you play with a Bubba Watson-pink driver?
— "You gotta have a big pair to swing pink, way to go Bubba!" ~Lowell Jacoby
— "I think it's a little odd, too, but hard to call him sissy-boy when he hits it 360 yards." ~Tim McDonald
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
He was a bold Man, that first eat an Oyster. ~Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England, in Three Dialogues by Simon Wagstaff, Esq., "Polite Conversation, &c.: Dialogue II" (Colonel Atwit), completed 1731, published 1738 [This is the original phrasing. Some later sources have changed this to "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
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