Quotes About Caution

I would not tell them too much. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them.

It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.

He has spoiled my night's reading, and that's reason enough, if there were no other, why I should steer clear of him in the future.

I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody

You wouldn't have any idea what's going on, would you? BAYARD, shaking his head: I was walking down the street. LEBEAU: Me too. Something told me—Don't go outside today. So I went out. Weeks go by and I don't open my door. Today I go out. And I had no reason, I wasn't even going anywhere. Looks left and right to the others. To Bayard: They get picked up the same way?

Moses went on to warn them, "Take heed . . . lest, when you have eaten and are full . . . your heart be lifted up" (8:11–14). Hosea tells us that this is exactly what happened (Hos. 13:6), despite the warning.

She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them.

Mamachi tried to caution Chacko. He heard her out, but didn't really listen to what she was saying. So despite the early rumblings of discontent on the premises of Paradise Pickles, Chacko, in rehearsal for the Revolucion, continued to play Conrade! Comrade! (116)

even children are permitted to take more risks than the elderly.

He warned them at length about how terrible the risks were and how limited the potential benefit.

My brother had very specific likes and dislikes. Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary.

Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary. All creatures in life had an equal chance with my brother, from terrier to psychotherapist. Those that impressed him with an especially keen mental ability, an amusing trick or had a large portion of food to offer would gain his favor. If my brother could find nothing of value to the person, he would dismiss them entirely.

Even though I am wary of Nature. After all, where do most manhunts for escaped serial killers begin? Exactly. In the woods.

A person to whom the oracles had said that he was going to marry his own mother and kill his own father would have to be a little careful and abstain from killing men old enough to be his father or marrying women old enough to be his mother.

Helvétius's maxims: "It is worth being wise only so long as one can also be foolhardy.

His enemies, insisted Adams, came in handy: "Our friends are either blind to our faults or not faithful enough to tell us of them." He knew that we are governed more by our feelings than by reason; with rigorous logic, he lunged at the emotions. He made a passion of decency. He was a prudent revolutionary. Among the last of his surviving words is a warning to Thomas Paine: "Happy is he who is cautious.

All too often dissenters wound up named or fined. Fifty-two-year-old Samuel Willard, Increase Mather's only equal among ministers, had sounded notes of caution all along. He assisted the Englishes in their escape; he participated in the private fast for John Alden. In exchange, he met with "unkindness, abuse, and reproach"—and with a witchcraft accusation.

Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where—as has become clear—anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.

I tried putting myself in the place of the Sender. I would send nothing that could be used contrary to my intentions. To provide any kind of tool without knowing to whom would be like handing out grenades to children.

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

Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Lo mejor será que hables lo menos posible de tus planes. Uno ya no sabe adónde te puede llevar una conversación, ni qué puedes esperar de personas a las que conoces de toda la vida.

On ne se coupe pas la jambe avec une banane.

Scrutinise three times; act once. Young people don't always grasp this. Being slow and faultless is better than being quick and final.