Quotes About Caution

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

A wise man's words are rarely questioned," he counselled gently. "Therefore you must be very careful whom you call wise.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them. -Tock

Quédate siempre detrás del hombre que dispara y delante del hombre que está cagando. Así estás a salvo de las balas y de la mierda.

We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.

Cuidado com as coisas de que mais tarde pode se arrepender.

There is a danger the wheat might burn with the chaff.

At every turn you propose to take, you will find someone to warn you away, to tell you not to take that road, that it will lead to disaster.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.

Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn.

hatch. I wouldn't risk another high-speed dock if we don't have to.

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Ambition leads you to great risk. But ambition never leads you to certain destruction." "Unless you're a fool.

Be careful when you go searching for lost objects in people's houses. Some of them get prickly about finding burglars there, and they can afford the very best weapons, whether legal or illegal. Since they hardly ever get to kill people in the normal course of their day, they will naturally have an extra impulsion to fire at you, just to satisfy their curiosity about how it would feel to fire the weapon in anger, so to speak.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

A burnt child loves the fire.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.