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Quotes About Caution

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.
~ Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist
No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.
~ Robert Greene
This is no time to make new enemies.
~ Voltaire
Someone is watching you. Or, someone is probably watching you. Or, you feel like someone's watching you. So you follow the rules whether someone's watching you or not.
~ E. Lockhart
Don't eat yellow snow.
~ E. Lockhart
Since she could not unravel the tangle, she must take care not to re-enter it.
~ E. M. Forster
It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious.
~ E.M. Forster
Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which is often a surer way of discovering the truth than from what they say. But then keep all those observations to yourself, for your own private use, and rarely communicate them to others. Observe, without being thought an observer, for otherwise people will be upon their guard before you.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
alara, sen neleri terk ettin annen gibi yenilmek için? biz ne zaman annemiz gibi olduk? asl?nda babam?z olan o adamlar? nas?l bulduk? yenildi?imiz bir maç?n rövan?? bu, alara dikkatli ol. o adamlarda baban? öldürebildin mi? ihtimal öldüremedin. yenildin
~ Ece Temelkuran
Just because a blindfolded drunk can cross Westheimer Road unharmed in the middle of traffic once doesn't mean he can do it again, Hirs said.
~ Ed Hirs
A smidgen of prevention can prevent some real headaches!
~ Ed Tittel
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
~ Eden Phillpotts
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
~ Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
~ Edgar Bergen
For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
~ Edith Hamilton
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
~ Edmund Burke
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
~ Edmund Burke
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
~ Edmund Burke
Another iron door, on which was writ,Be not too bold.
~ Edmund Spenser
Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined -- personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime.
~ Edna Buchanan
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee.
~ Edward Abbey
When in doubt about drinking from an unknown spring look for life. If the water is scummed with algae, crawling with worms, grubs, larvae, spiders and liver flukes, be reassured, drink hearty, you'll get nothing worse than dysentery. But if it appears innocent and pure, beware.
~ Edward Abbey