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Quotes About Caution

Slowly - slowly. It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun
~ Rudyard Kipling
If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in.     ââ'¬â€Hindu Proverb.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?
~ Russell Hoban
Beware of Mrs. Meir. She is a formidable person.
~ Ruth Gruber
People change when they get older. They get more . . . cautious. They've been hit harder and more often. It doesn't mean they're stupid or timid—Mom
~ S. M. Stirling
Sure I like Grossinger's," it was saying, "but let me warn you—if you go up there, be sure and wear sunglasses. You can get snow blindness from the sour cream." It
~ S.J Perelman
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Perhaps the wolf wasn't quite so dangerous as he pretended. Unfortunately, there was only one way to find out for sure——give him a little rope and see if he hung himself. And pray that he didn't tie her up with it instead.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.
~ Salman Rushdie
Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing.
~ Salman Rushdie
A little thinking is a dangerous thing.
~ Salman Rushdie
Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.
~ Salman Rushdie
Cuidado con el hombre de acción que por fin desea progresar por medio del pensamiento. Un poco de pensamiento es algo peligroso.
~ Salman Rushdie
Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.
~ O. J. Simpson
I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.
~ Rachel Maddow
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
~ Andrew Carnegie
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
~ Joseph Addison
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
~ James A. Baldwin
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Action makes more fortune than caution.
~ Luc de Clapiers
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
~ John Churton Collins
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
~ Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.
~ Frederick The Great