Quotes About Precaution

When I was 18, I went to India and was stupid enough to drink the tap water. I ended up with dysentery. It's not an experience I wish to go through again.

I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I'm the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.

I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape - I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop - I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.

Always do whatever you can to keep your superior from making a mistake.

Even if you are absolutely certain that a gun is not loaded, handle it as if it were because you're forming a habit, and the consequences of a moment of inattention or carelessness can be disastrous.

to stay clear of the downtown

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.

A trap isn't really a trap if you know it's there," he said absently, bending the end of one of the severed wires a little to line up better with its mate. "If you know it's there, maybe you can see a way to walk in so it isn't a trap at all.

Don't pick up hitchhikers!- D. Adams

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

it's perhaps better for a prince to learn young that looking before one steps is basic self-preservation.

I almost always wear a helmet." "Brian!" She slapped the table. "Do you have any idea what the fatality rate is for motorcycle riders? And that's with proper headgear. I should bring you to the ME's office sometime. If you saw what I saw—" "I'm sure it's bad." She

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

I always keep this handy...for close encounters. (Cpl. Hicks)

For no matter how weak she felt, Betsy could wield words as a weapon. When an acquaintance insisted it was impossible to acquire a knowledge of the world without being deeply infected with its vices, she retorted that knowledge was a precaution rather than a trap, "for as soon as [we] have found out where [we] are mostly likely to be overcome, there let [us] place [our] strongest guard.

Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

It's the look you give a well-behaved imbecile, an insurance policy against cosmic malevolence.

he's not sure how safe this meeting is going to be. And

In movies they never put on a condom, so make sure you're in real life for that part.