Quotes About Caution

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy—onless ye know.

Ye who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should arise, Cold and white, to freeze your eyes...

I know you think you know this guy, but I'm telling you now. Don't mess with him. If you're anything other than straight with Jensen, this isn't going to work.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

First rule of restorations. Never do what you can't undo.

If a person focused too much on a future that could not be controlled, he would become, Roosevelt acknowledged, too "careful, calculating, cautious in word and act.

No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, and cautionary fables.

It seems to me,' said Philippa prosaically, 'that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford's protection than without it.

The drink was almost certainly safe. He would probably get pleurisy, quinsy and pox from the cup.

His defences are good. But it is his friends that will bring him low, not his enemies, Lady Culter. Keep you out of his way. That's the best advice I can give you.

Of course. You have always tried to escape.' 'And I have always harmed the friends who have tried to stop me,' Lymond said. His voice was uninflected. He added, 'I have tried many times to warn you not to come too close to me.

It is not advisable to crow. It might be oneself next time.

Well, it's no good jumping at conclusions." "Jump? You don't even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion.

It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble.

One of these days you'll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn't be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly.

For example, the word 'daffy-down-dilly.' It is a criminal libel to call a lawyer a daffy-down-dilly. Ha! Yes, I advise you never to do such a thing.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

Never throw the letter Q into a privet bush.

He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.