Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear to Tread

The line For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. was first written by Alexander Pope in his poem An Essay on Criticism.

It has since been used as follows:

the full line

• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread is used by Edmund Burke in his work Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread is used in Abraham Lincoln's speech made at Peoria, Illinois October 16, 1854
• Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread), a 1940 song covered by Frank Sinatra, Ricky

Nelson, and others

• Cary Grant uses the full line in the movie 'The Bishop's Wife'
• The line Fools rush in where angels fear to tread appears in Bob Dylan's song Jokerman
• The line Fools rush in where angels fear to tread appears in the 1984 film Supergirl
• The line Fools rush in where angels fear to tread is used in the movie Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009)

first half of line only

• Fools Rush In (1949 film), a British comedy film
• Fools Rush In (1973 film), television documentary
• Fools Rush In (1997 film), a romantic comedy film
• Fools Rush In, title of an All Grown Up! episode, 2004
• Fools Rush In, song by Bow Wow Wow from the 1999 album Girl Bites Dog
• Wise men say, only fools rush in, from Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love, released in 1961

second half of line only

• The video game Planetfall, originally packaged with a booklet titled "Today's Stellar Patrol: Boldly Going Where Angels Fear to Tread."
• In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Captain James T. Kirk said: "I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread."
• In the video game League of Legends, the Champion Nasus occasionally says "...where angels fear to tread" when given an order.
• In the Doctor Who episode The Satan Pit, the Doctor uses this line while commenting on human curiosity.

Novels and films

• Where Angels Fear to Tread, 1905 novel by E. M. Forster
• Where Angels Fear to Tread (film), 1991 adaptation of Forster's novel
• Where Angels Fear, novel, spin-off from Doctor Who
• Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred, 1987, Mary Catherine Bateson & Gregory Bateson
• Fear to Tread, a Horus Heresy novel written by James Swallow, published by Black Library in September 2012

Music

• Angels Fear, the main theme of Secret of Mana. It makes a "cameo appearance" in Seiken Densetsu 3 under the name Where Angels Fear to Tread
• Where Angels Fear to Tread (Mink DeVille album), 1983
• Where Angels Fear to Tread (Matt Redman album)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread, album by Mentallo and the Fixer, 1994
• Where Angels Fear to Tread, song by Spin Doctors from the 1996 album You've Got to Believe in Something
• Where Angels Fear to Tread, song by Bryan Adams from On a Day Like Today (album), 1998
• Angels Fear To Tread, song by Charles Manson, from the 2002 album One Mind
• Where Boys Fear to Tread, song by The Smashing Pumpkins, from the 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness