Quotes About Caution

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.

Horace's mother had warned him about white people, that he should never speak to them unless they spoke first, and that if he did, he needed to say "sir" and "ma'am" and not be rude but to get away as quickly as he could beforethey did something terrible. She had refused to say what it was people like this did that was so awful. Horace figured they ate colored people, or at least colored children.

Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

The real way to live a long life is not by being a frightened and cautious victim but by living boldly and accepting the idea of taking reasonable risks.

The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle and a Plato have much to say; but those who have imposed cautions on themselves and petrified themselves in a system of ideas, them the masters themselves will lead into error

All I can say is, Emily, don't.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned.

I have one rule about trouble. When it comes, I get out of the way.

He remembered his father's old advice about keeping your friends close but your enemies closer.

Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.

Be careful," Serge admonished. "It's dumb out there.

Another tip to weld society together. Give the person up to bat at the ATM plenty of space so they're not nervous about you peeking at their PIN number or slipping a blade between their ribs the second the money spits out.

Serge looked up. 'I hope you've learned your lesson.' They nodded quickly and hard. 'And that lesson,' said Serge, 'is that you never really know whom you're fucking with, so best not to do it at all.

Use sunscreen; don't do heroin.' . . . If you could give the entire human race only one sentence of advice, I think you've just nailed it.

but don't you let him trick you into a fight in school. He's, like, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do or something.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

I normally try to drive carefully.

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen.

When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'