Quotes About Caution

The cold numbs before it kills.

If you don't know it, don't write it.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.

That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.

the Doctor said, as if he hadn't heard, 'but the fact remains that if we attempt to push things too far we might end up disappearing up our own singularity and, probably, take this entire section of the universe with us. And I think we've all had quite enough of that for a while.

And, like every other trait, it's distributed in different proportions among the population, just like height. Some people have a lot of this tendency, and some just a little. It helps the tribe to have some of both types of people—aggressive warriors who have so little fear that they will go out and bring home a mastodon for lunch, and cautious members who won't have any part of that, but will also live long enough to raise a new generation, and feed it by growing corn.

So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. Prudence is not precise knowledge, but a willingness to adapt to circumstances in the shortest possible time.

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

IF U WANT TO KICK THE TIGER ASS BECAREFULL OF HIS TEETH FIRST.

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Think of that hard before your emotions jump in and start loaning people money that you will never see again

Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.

others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit,

Don't mess with Teresa. If I teach you nothing else in life, it's that. Don't mess with Teresa.

This isn't a slumber party.

Being careful hasn't gotten us squat.

Okay." He hesitated. One word. So far, not so good.

Thomas knew he had to be careful. It was strange that she only agreed with him about WICKED now that she'd gotten her memories back.

Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.