Quotes About Caution

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

A burnt child loves the fire.

Beware how you give your heart.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.

Humans who believe they have outrun their undead pursuers might do well to remember the story of the tortoise and the hare, adding, of course, that in this instance the hare stands a good chance of being eaten alive.

booby trap.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans. Paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.

The town reacted to us as its inhabitants had reacted to all things new before our coming. It regarded us a while without curiosity but with caution, and after we were seen to be harmless (and children) it closed in around us, as a real mother embraces a stranger's child. Warmly, but not too familiarly.

Be careful when a naked person gives you a shirt.

Usually when one throw's oneself at another's feet, one should be prepared to do a fast roll to avoid being stepped on.

Momma, knowing Bailey, warned, Now Ju, be careful you don't slip up on a not true. (Nice people didn't say lie.)

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

I hope not to be gone for more than a day or two, Susannah, but I am perfectly aware that in the past it hasn't taken much longer than that for you to get yourself into mortal peril. Kindly, while I'm away, see to it that you exercise a modicum of caution in that capacity.

All I can say is, be careful what you wish for. It just might come true.

I staggered into the bathroom to change into my pj's - hey, I was pretty sure Jesse wasn't spying on me, but he still hadn't told me how he'd died, so I wasn't taking any chances. He could have been hanged, you know, for Peeping Tomism, which I believed happened occasionally a hundred and fifty years ago.

I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.

You are wary of treachery? More wary of stupidity.

if you tease a dog, it bites.