“Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.”

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“1006. Boldness in Business is the first, second, and third thing.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist

“The confirmations of novel predictions resulting from bold conjectures are very important in the falsificationist account of the growth of science.”

Alan Chalmers book What Is This Thing Called Science?