Quotes About Caution

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

Crawford, ever wary of desire, knew how badly he wanted to be wise. He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him. So he spoke carefully, and only of things he knew.

In making friends she was ever wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it.

He's all right. Just don't mention proton decay." "I'll try to talk around it.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness. Add to them military reputation and it disposeth men to adhere and subject themselves to those men that have them. The two former, having given them caution against danger from him, the latter gives them caution against danger from others.

Delay is preferable to error.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.

LXXXI ABBOT PASTOR was asked by a certain brother: How should I conduct myself in the place where I live? The elder replied: Be as cautious as a stranger; wherever you may be, do not desire your word to have power before you, and you will have rest.

DON'T EVER ANTAGONIZE THE HORN.

paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Well, I always tell my girls that it's better to mistrust people at first rather than trust them, and it's safer to suspect people of evil intentions rather than good  ones...It sounds rather hard but we've got to be women of the world, haven't we?

to be cautious was to be wise.

If trust and lack of experience led to errors of judgement, the only way to be safe must be to distrust everyone.

Only a fool would cross a night traveler.

If she also heard Mrs. Glendoveer's voice warning her against this ill-advised adventure, she did not listen. She felt too bright inside.

I have a rule that has served me well in life. When in doubt, do nothing. If you're not sure, don't buy it, don't comment, don't commit. Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.

I have a rule that has served me well in life. When in doubt, do nothing. If you're not sure, don't buy it, don't comment, don't commit.

Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.

Again, I checked my rear.

You have to be so careful. You can't ever just throw words out. They have to land somewhere.

Someone who comes to me cautiously, knowing that falling in love is easy and staying in love is hard, that passion dies and most relationships are doomed before they start.

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.