If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds.
In plain words
If you want to be completely safe, you will spend your life watching instead of flying.
Where these words come from
- 90% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Speech to the Western Society of Engineers, September 18, 1901; published in the Journal of the Western Society of Engineers (Dec. 1901)
