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Quotes About Caution

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
~ Norm MacDonald
Believe everything you read
~ Kurt Cobain
But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
~ Terry Pratchett
Never trust a man in red trousers
~ Mika
never trust a Troglotroll
~ Walter Moers
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
~ Livy
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
~ Neil Gaiman
Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
~ Lucretius
Trust not one night's ice.
~ George Herbert
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
~ Morgan Brittany
You can't trust very many people.
~ George Best
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
~ Edna Buchanan
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
~ Ellis Peters
My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.
~ Steven Herrick, Cold Skin
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Trust not too much to appearances
~ Virgil
Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
~ Benjamin Franklin
No trust is to be placed in women.
~ Homer
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
~ George Herbert
Always seek the general and never quite trust it.
~ Joseph Epstein