Quotes About Caution

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile it has bad breath.

Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill. #Gewurztraminer

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee.

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.

Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Be circumspect, for to a credulous eye, He comes invisible, veil'd with flattery, And flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs...

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Experience makes more timid men than it duz wise ones.

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

Fear is one part prudence.

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.

Fear is the mother of foresight: spiritual fear... temporal fear...

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Don't let your dreams go up in smoke — practice fire safety.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

Practice fire safety — watch what you heat.

If you put out the fire, you won't have to jump out the window!

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it...

If you are careless enough to be killed," said Kelle, "you put us to enormous inconvenience.