Quotes About Caution

Love. She said the word as if she'd never heard it before. What would I do with love? I don't know. Enjoy it? She sighed. It's too dangerous to enjoy. It's kind of like sucking on a poisonous thorn and trying to enjoy the flavor. Not that easy.

there is less danger in fearing too much than too little"—

never to be caught by another Pearl Harbor.

It is important to say sir at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

LVI A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

The dead man and the living man exchanged a long look. Then the youth cautiously put one hand behind him and brought it against a tree. Leaning upon this he retreated, step by step, with his face still toward the thing. He feared that if he turned his back the body might spring up and stealthily pursue him.

Don't do it," the patient said. "Even if she wants it, don't let her do it. I used to be a model. You don't want your kid to be a model.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or no they are loaded you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time. Poppycock means soft shit - from the Dutch, I need scarcely remind you, pappe kak.

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring

Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

Never scrub your arse with a wire brush.

So if a beautiful alien in a flying saucer invites you into her time machine, step with care. You might fall into one of these trapped repeating histories of only finite duration.

I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

because he didn't want it going through regular departmental vetting procedures, not until he knew where it was leading and what it might uncover. He operated this way frequently; it was always better to begin low-profile and let the thing develop slowly, undistorted by the pressures of expectation.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

Hadn't somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?

The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

You don't worry about dropping the eggs until you're almost home.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.