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 Gracian
But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
~Mary Wortley Montagu, The Answer
Venus [...]