Quotes About Caution

Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.

Caution is good, but sometimes courage is better.

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper--to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp edges, but mostly to be cautious of what is written on it.

A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won't sit on a cold stove either.

This reminded me of the peril of applying analogies in geopolitics, best encapsulated in Mark Twain's line: "A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won't sit on a cold stove either.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

As the ancientsSay wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,And look before you ere you leap;For as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

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

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.

Forewarned is forearmed...

Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous.

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It's not safe to love everyone.

A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly.

If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.

Don't go looking for trouble, it will find you soon enough without you shouting out an invitation.

A hole ain't nothing either, but you can still break your neck in it.

pulling my leg. Well, don't stay alone here too late