Quotes About Caution

Well that's the problem with paradise—nothing attracts a serpent quite like

Never do something that can't be undone.

Well, that's the problem with paradise. Nothing attracts a serpent quite like it. 

people who constantly looked over their shoulders often bumped

The telegraph kept this all moving fast. The whole transaction between Wheeling and Washington took place in a matter of hours, and could have done so if the ends were San Francisco and Washington. So now, of course, a man could make a stupid decision much faster. So Hayes's natural caution made sense.

He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed.

Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.

Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the enemy plan of the day might be.

if you live next door to an apex predator, you shouldn't go around poking him with a stick. Fiji

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

If I'd learned anything over the past few years, it was not to make stupid assumptions. The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

Don't mess with Sergio Marchionne.

Obviously you don't want to mess with an Achilles. That is for sure.

I have done good work in television and wouldn't want to mess it with a wrong move.

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

Nothing good happens after midnight.

As far as Mike Dolce goes, I would never hire him again for anything.

It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me.

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.

But I wish to be enlightened.' 'Let me caution you against it.' 'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?' 'Yes, indeed.' She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.