Quotes About Precaution

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Some cold, hard facts: Cold is more dangerous than heat. Toothpicks are more dangerous than lightning. Pedestrians are more dangerous than fire. Beds are more dangerous than ladders. Snakes are more dangerous than terrorists. Flammable nightwear is more dangerous than a bee sting. Coconuts are more dangerous than sharks.7

They had 'decided … to make themselves as ugly as they could' by soaking up the sun, hatless, on the journey from Livadia, 'so that Carol should not fall in love with any of them'.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Prevention is better than cure,

Be careful if you go to Disneyland. There's an outbreak of measles. They have traced the disease to Donald Duck running around without his pants.

There was a saying about dust bunnies: by the time you see the teeth, it's too late.

I've found that if I limit my talking, just everyday talking, a couple of days before I have to sing, my voice is stronger. That really is about the only precaution that I take: I try to rest it as much as possible and keep the nutritional value of my food up.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

How do you keep a mattress on the roof of your car from flying?" "Yeah, well, I don't know how many people know it, but a lot of people have learned that putting your arm up there to hold the mattress is not going to work.

On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.

There might be a problem if your husband carries condoms and you're on the pill.

began removing things from the bucket. First came a Swiss Army knife, a flashlight, a penlight, and a bottle of extra-strength glue, which Kate examined to be sure its lid was tightly closed. Then she produced a bag of marbles, a slingshot, a spool of clear fishing twine, one pencil and one eraser, a kaleidoscope, and a horseshoe magnet, which she yanked with some effort from the metal bucket. "I've been through

They made him [Stephen] a little canvas boat, and it was thought that if he were obliged to wear two sea-elephant's bladders, blown up and attached to his person, he could not come to harm in such a placid sea; but after an unfortunate experience in which he became involved in his umbrella and it was found that the bladders buoyed up his meagre hams alone, so that only the presence of Babbington's Newfoundland preserved him, he was forbidden to go unaccompanied.

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

Watch out for snakes,' Durnik called after him.

One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

This was the first time that the British Ambassador had succeeded in making such an arrangement. Every precaution was taken by the police. One of my guests, M. Vyshinsky, on passing some of the N.K.V.D. armed guards on our staircase, remarked, "Apparently the Red Army has had another victory. It has occupied the British Embassy.

He who wishes to drown himself must have an ax at hand to cut the ice.

You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work .