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Quotes About Caution

Keep your eyes open! Look out below! Look out above! Look out for spies! Look out for one another! Look out! Aye! Be very careful! Be very aware! Be very much! Take a break! No—keep going! Stay awake! Calm down! Cheer up! Keep climbing! Keep your shirt on! Aye!
~ Lemony Snicket
Colette picked up a piece of the bread and stared at it suspiciously. "This toast feels raw," she said. "Is it safe to eat raw toast?" "Of course not," Hugo said. "I bet that baby is trying to poison us." "Actually
~ Lemony Snicket
He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet Toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter.
~ Lemony Snicket
The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.
~ Lemony Snicket
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
~ lenin vladimir ii
Children, Don't do what I have done I couldn't walk so I tried to run
~ lennon john iii
I always tell new people in show business. I say, "Look, show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're gonna get screwed. And when you get screwed, you will have this pile of money off to the side already." And they go, "OK, OK, OK, you ready? You ready?" "I got screwed." "You got the pile of money?" "Yeah, I'm fine." I mean, that's the way it works.
~ leno jay
If I had learnt nothing else from my study of the methods of the three great men sitting near me, I had learnt this, that they would eventually pick out the one person I had not suspected. So I followed the simple plan of suspecting everyone. I was determined not to be surprised.
~ Leo Bruce
you're going to have a wreck in a truck and someone comes along and offers you a ride in a truck, then do not accept it.
~ James Redfield
An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.
~ James Ruddick
you might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards
~ James Thurber
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and the angels are all in Heaven, but few of the fools are dead.
~ James Thurber
The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.
~ Jamie O'Neill
Advice is a dangerous thing, the Watcher responded. It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.
~ Jan Siegel
Beware how you give your heart.
~ Jane Austen
The less said the better.
~ Jane Austen
Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.
~ Jane Austen
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk
~ Jane Austen
You go to Brighton! -- I would not trust you so near it as East-Bourne, for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have at last learnt to be cautious, and you will feel the effects of it. No officer is ever to enter my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
~ Jane Austen
for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man)
~ Jane Austen
I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.
~ Jane Austen
You are too sensible a girl to fall in love merely because you are warned against it.
~ Jane Austen
Hay tanto de gratitud o de vanidad en casi todos los defectos, que no es cauto abandonarse de ellos.
~ Jane Austen
How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, -how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence! - She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
~ Jane Austen