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Quotes About Caution

There's no guardrail.
~ Joe Schreiber
Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.
~ Joel Greenblatt
The strategy of putting all your eggs in one basket and watching that basket is less risky than you might think.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.
~ Joel Osteen
But electricity used the wrong way can be very dangerous.
~ Joel Osteen
One should never change one's practice based on a single journal article.
~ Joel Paris
I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd; the way your mother warned you about, essentially.
~ Joey Comeau
The light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading straight for you.
~ Joey Green
Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
~ Johann Georg Zimmermann
Zum Erwerben eines Glücks gehört Fleiß und Geduld, und zur Erhaltung desselben gehört Mäßigung und Vorsicht. Langsam und Schritt für Schritt steigt man eine Treppe hinauf. Aber in einem Augenblick fällt man hinab, und bringt Wunden und Schmerzen genug mit auf die Erde.
~ Johann Peter Hebel
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
~ Walter Bagehot
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
~ Plautus
Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.
~ Frederick Lenz
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.
~ Cynthia Kadohata
If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.
~ Dave Barry
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
~ Epictetus
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
~ Plautus
Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.
~ Sam Levenson
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
~ Samuel Johnson
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
~ Sophocles