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Quotes About Caution

I have always been careful of people who say they are behind me because that's where you need to be if you are going to stab them in the back.
~ Jonathan Lynn
I took a very careful hold of the metal door handle. No shocks and nothing exploded. I pulled gently and the door yielded, but I stayed on the balls of my feet. If I felt the tension of a wire or heard a click, I was going to set a new land speed record for a scared white guy in a hazmat suit.
~ Jonathan Maberry
And there was the nervous one who couldn't sleep but kept everyone on time and figured out which berries not to eat.
~ Jonathan Mooney
Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto." [- Lockwood] "Holds true with unmummified ones too," George said. "That's the motto I live by.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto.
~ Jonathan Stroud
What I mean is, we're not necessarily going to run into trouble here. Despite its history of violent death.
~ Jonathan Stroud
To be fair, since meeting her that morning she'd treated me with careful attention and respect; but since the same could also be said of a gloved scientist holding a blob of plague bacillus on a glass slide, I didn't read too much into it.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Charming as she was, it never pays a Djin to get close to people. Never. Take it from one who knows.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.
~ Jonathan Stroud
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning
~ Jonathan Swift
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
~ Eminem
instrucciones de prudencia dignas de grandes paranoicos.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
~ English proverb
He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.
~ English proverb
I neka ti uvijek bude na umu da nisi ljudski stvor ve? samo obi?an turist. ne daj se zavesti izvanjskom ljubaznoš?u: ona ne ide tebe ve? tvoju lisnicu.
~ Ephraim Kishon
Confident because of our caution
~ Epictetus
In short, 'Be careful!' too often means: 'Make a mistake so I can tell you I told you to be careful,' and that is the final display. 'Be careful, ha ha!' is even more of a provocation. As a straight Adult instruction 'Be careful!' may have some value, but Parental overconcern or a Child Ha Ha gives it a different turn.
~ Eric Berne
guess it's like driving a car, you gotta watch out for the other guy! I
~ Eric Blehm
when you assign a value to a variable name that hasn't been previously declared, it is treated as a new, global variable. So be careful, if you do this within a function you are creating a global variable. Note
~ Eric Freeman
I wonder if Napoleon or even Robt. Lee were our commander this evening would they pursue a defeated army in this cautious, courteous way?
~ Eric J. Wittenberg
Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.
~ Eric Metaxas
When in unknown territory, before you did anything else, make darn sure you look around to see if someone was about to blow your head off.
~ Eric S. Nylund
A glib tongue that goes on chattering sings to its own harm,
~ Eric Schumacher
It's very well to be thrifty, but don't amass a hoard of regrets.
~ Eric Tyson