Quotes About Caution

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.

Accidents hurt — safety doesn't.

When a thief kisses you, count your teeth.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury.

Don't learn safety by accident.

More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution.

and one of the regulations indicates that they were always cautious in expressing opinions of one another or of those outside of the organization, and they were not critical of the lives or affairs of the people they were trying to reform or assist. They also adhered strictly to one of their laws: "Judge not—lest ye be judged also.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.

In developed countries, unemployment due to trade adjustment may not be a matter of life and death, but in developing countries it often is. This is why we need to be more cautious with trade liberalization in poorer economies.

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

I like the sea, but it's not a creature I want to take liberties with.

Imam Mawl?d then says that one should hasten "to fulfill [God's] command" and be "wary of the subtle encroachment of bad manners," namely, faults that one is unaware of. A hadith states, "One of you will say a word and give it no consideration, though it will drag the person [who uttered it] through Hellfire for 70 years.

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, "The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress power, without reflecting that every free nation that hath ever existed has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience and want of necessary caution.

War is absolutely the last card any national leader should play, and only when every other alternative has been exhausted. If the hand was being played by an old soldier, a war veteran, I can assure you he would guard that war card to the bitter end and play it reluctantly and with the fear and trepidation of experience.

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Just as physical pain tells us to get our hands out of the fire, our fear tells us—once we've been burned—to be cautious about fire the next time around. The fight-or-flight response that

Now, please make sure that you keep your very sweet and honorable derriere indoors tomorrow!