A Quote by W. H. Auden

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

W. H. Auden

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W. H. Auden
English - Poet
February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Winston Churchill

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Jane Wagner

I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

Julian Grenfell

Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.

Larry Harvey

The examined life is no picnic.

Robert Fulghum

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

Elizabeth Enright

The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

Jonathan Cainer

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

Richard Dawkins

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

Charles A. Murray

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Jim Fowler

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.