Quotes About Precaution

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

All's well so long-as you don't get shot in the hind end with a twenty gauge.

Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.

I saw your shower curtain hit the back lawn. You'll need to replace that." "I have a spare," I said. "Why on earth would you have a spare shower curtain?" he asked. "In case I need to haul off a body," I said.

I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought...

These days, security for your devices is just simple good sense, like putting on your seat belt.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses. The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade. It should stand as a fundamental maxim, that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils, which are closely connected with the cause of our prosperity.

If you have, you certainly must know that a dog, afflicted with genuine rabies, will no more turn out of his way to bite anyone than a typhoid patient will jump out of bed to chase a doctor. I'm not saying that the bite of any sick animal (or of any sick human, for that matter) isn't more or less dangerous; unless it's carefully washed out and painted with iodine

If more folks were afraid to keep dogs, there'd be easier pickings for them that make their living by what they can find in folks' houses at night.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

the wisdom of the precaution is evident from the cry which has been raised against it; as that very cry betrays a disposition to question the great and essential truth which it is manifestly the object of that provision to declare.

A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

We cannot let our guard down in the face of terror.

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

If we've learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it's the importance of planning ahead.

I was always told failure to plan is planning to fail, so I've always been a huge guy on planning.

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.