Quotes About Caution

They think giving us sugar is like sprinkling water on the Gremlins.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you." My dad.

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.

I like to change my clothes as little as possible. I suppose some people would say the same of my ideas, the bank had taught me to be wary of whims.

I hope they don't repeat our mistake and invent the wheel.

It would be better if I called you,' she told me, and caution, I thought, caution, how well she knows how to conduct an affair like this, and I remembered again the stair that always - 'always' was the phrase she had used -squeaked.

It is the bullet you don't hear that gets you.

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.

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Never do anything for the first time.

It's better to have a weapon and not need it, they'd told me more than once, than need it and not have it.

Aren't you flirting with danger yourself?

Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.

I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor.

We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.

I think we need to be very careful if we want to do things like further modify our atmosphere. And similarly, I think we need to be very worried about unintentional modification, which is basically what's been going on.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

It's always the crocodile you don't see you have to worry about.

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

If I'm a busboy in Philadelphia, then I have to be careful about what I say. But if I'm a public tycoon like Jerry Seinfeld, and I got a billion dollars in my pocket, he's got to be nuts to wonder or worry about what people are going to think.