Definition of Perilous

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Definition of Perilous
	Perilous Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Related Definitions: As, Attended, Dangerous, Daring, Full, Hazardous, Involving, Of, Or, Peril, Perilous, Reckless, Undertaking, With

Perilous Quotations

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I

Perilous Translations

perilous in Swedish is farlig

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