Quotes About Caution

That a man who had once betrayed him, it would be an error in policy ever to trust again.

It does not do to trust people too much.

...Broad o'er its imbricated cup The Goatsbeard spreads its golden rays, But shuts its cautious petals up, Retreating from the noon-tide blaze...

I didn't know what was making that noise, but whatever it was, it was mad and it was big. And I didn't want to meet it with nothing but my cheeks in my hands.

He'd been sticking his neck out, which is literally the stupidest thing I can imagine anyone doing when it comes to vampires. That ought to be Rule Number One For Dealing With Vampires, right there. Don't stick your neck out!

Yeah, you're being paranoid all right, pal, Brad concluded, but a little paranoia never hurt anyone. Like that dude said, it ain't paranoia if the bastards really are watchin'.

If it is too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.

Government employees are the lowest risk-takers on earth.

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

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There are two things that should be avoided; the deadly upas tree and soda water. The latter will make you puffy and poddy.

And don't talk too fast — you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

There is room here only to caution the reader with a general rule of thumb: Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

Vanity I am sensible, is my cardinal Vice and cardinal Folly, and I am in continual Danger, when in Company, of being led an ignis fatuus Chase by it, without the strictest Caution and watchfulness over my self.

All mushrooms are edible — but some only once.

A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.

Wine has drowned more men than the sea.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it.

After all the stupid things I've done in my life, hope I don't die just because I touched my face.

The driver is safer when the roads are dry; the roads are safer when the driver is dry.

See Dick drink. See Dick drive. See Dick die. Don't be a Dick.