“3678. Nothing venture, nothing have.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
"October's Abstract". Compare: "Naught venture naught have", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter XI.
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)
“3678. Nothing venture, nothing have.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
Amelia Earhart book Last Flight
Source: Last Flight (1937), p. 51
Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
From his interview in The Sunday Mirror, 16th January 2000
“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 56
The Gay Science (1882)
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 21.
“The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.”
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) American physician
Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.