Quotes About Caution

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but aren't . . . I just wanted to know if she would sting.

once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.

Because the dark, the parents said, the dark is full of things it is definitely better not to meet.

O castigo dos desconfiados é suspeitar de tudo, dia e noite. Suspeitar até de si mesmos e das próprias suspeitas

Muito cuidado, o fanatismo é extremamente infeccioso, mais contagioso do que qualquer vírus. Pode-se contrair fanatismo facilmente, até mesmo ao tentar vencê-lo ou combatê-lo. Basta ler os jornais ou ver televisão para verificar como as pessoas se convertem facilmente em fanáticos antifanáticos, em fanáticos antifundamentalistas, em cruzados antijihad.

You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot's wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.

Tuttavia, nessuno in paese usciva mai di casa quando era buio. Perché il buio, dicevano i genitori, il buio è pieno di cose che è decisamente meglio non incontrare.

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

Never show a weapon before you have to use it

Caution has always ruled your kind. You depend upon the sanctity of locks—thus, what is prisoned by one man may be freed by another.

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket carefully

Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck. Sheila turns her head, Go slowly and be careful, she says.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. —Stanislaw J. Lec

On the eve of the French Revolution, Burke cautioned that "criminal means, once tolerated, are soon preferred.

Have fun and be careful!

I've read enough Stephen King books to know that you don't go fooling around with the supernatural.

avoid trouble

If, for whatever wild reason, I ever wind up as a celebrity, don't let Mary Anne near me.

Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.