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Quotes About Caution

Handle with care. Probably has Views. Do not attempt to kiss hand.
~ Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.
~ Sharon Law Tucker
I love sports, OK? But I think we really need to take it on ourselves to not be so crazy about sports, not to risk someone's future just because we think they might be the next star.
~ Ann McKee
Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.
~ Sue Perkins
There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.
~ David Gauke
I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
~ Kenneth Langone
You play the game to compete and you want to be a starter, but at the same time you don't want to rush yourself to be in any situation that could possibly lead you back to where you are today.
~ Teddy Bridgewater
Your mistakes get to follow you for the rest of your life. I don't know if that's good for people who are young and are just starting to explore the Internet.
~ Jeff Moss
I never made any public statements. At least, I tried never to make any public statements.
~ Roman Abramovich
You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn't mean that we negate them completely; we just don't use them to the extent that people might think.
~ Andre Villas-Boas
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
~ Karen Traviss
If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught.
~ Mobutu Sese Seko
I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.
~ Sara Shepard
Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.
~ Martin Jacques
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
~ Publilius Syrus
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
~ Thomas Fuller
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
~ Thomas Fuller
From hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, Know one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold.
~ Thomas Gray
Fear is the mother of foresight.
~ Thomas Hardy
Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!
~ Thomas Hardy
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…
~ Thomas Hardy
I will walk on eggs.
~ Thomas Heywood
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
~ Thomas Huxley