Quotes About Caution

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

It is better to be safe than sorry.

Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Talking too much, too soon, and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it.

Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things, behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.