Quotes About Caution

Well, for heaven's sake, don't leave her unattended. You never know what she might do," she snapped and promptly appeared in the doorway.

You should never mistake affection for … passion," I warn her. "It can be … not good. It can … get you into, well, trouble.

I don't trust anyone named Gavin.

Never trust a river, Dylan. Give a river even half a chance, and it'll try to kill you.

It is not wise to be seen out in the open by hawks, if you are a dove.

Futur is a threat, not a promise

There would not be much left if every useful thing that could be turned to bad ends were destroyed.

Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people.

a sentiment, coming from it is not to be trusted.

Better not to sit on a hedgehog if you are naked.

Another lesson that cries out for attention is that investors should be very wary of purchasing today's hot "new issue." Most initial public offerings underperform the stock market as a whole. And if you buy the new issue after it begins trading, usually at a higher price, you are even more certain to lose.

Avoiding serious trouble, particularly troubles that come from incurring unnecessary risks, is one of the great secrets to investment success. Investors all too often beat themselves by making serious—and completely unnecessary—investment mistakes. In

among married couples the person who actually makes out the mortgage check is likely to be more cautious about spending money than the person who doesn't. There is something sobering about sending away that much money every month in the knowledge that, rain or shine, you'll have to come up with the same amount of money the next month and the month after that.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

So the White House wants to eat the Washington Post, so what? It will be wearing on you, but the end is in sight. It's building and they see it and they know that they can't stop the real story from coming out. That's why they're so desperate. Just be careful, yourselves and the paper, and wait them out, don't jump too fast. Be careful and don't be too anxious.

Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.

Don't order the fish," Yancy advised Merry when they sat down. "But it's a seafood joint." "More like a petri dish with menus. When they say 'catch of the day,' they mean infection." Brennan

Don't order the fish," Yancy advised Merry when they sat down. "But it's a seafood joint." "More like a petri dish with menus.

There's a certain discipline involved. We can't just go off shouting 'little green men' every time we detect something we don't at first understand, because we're going to look mighty silly when it turns out to be something else. Special cautions are necessary when the stakes are high. We are not obliged to make up our minds before the evidence is in. It's permitted to not be sure.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

Do not be so quick to accept as truth what is only conjecture.

Sometimes change is necessary. Sometimes we recognize the need for it, but we don't know how to achieve it. We misread its nature. We think it is beyond us, failing to recognize that our inability to act is a problem of our own making. Change is the solution we require, but it is not a goal that is easily reached. Identifying and disposing of what is troubling to us requires caution and understanding.

You were guaranteed so little in this life, and so sometimes you took what was offered even though you knew it might end badly.

Trusting people you didn't know was never a good idea.