Quotes About Caution

Sometimes the most dangerous enemy is a hasty heart," he said softly.

The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.

Oh, my young friends and fellow sinners! beware of presuming to exercise your poor carnal reason. Oh, be morally tidy! Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!

How can I thank you?" "I will tell you how. Don't blame me for what happens afterwards!

God preserve me from my friends," he concluded; "I will take care of my enemies myself.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Expect poison from the standing water.

It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written. A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours, I say to myself, for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds, the corn become a black smut, and all libraries, of necessity, be burned to the ground as a consequence. Only one answer: write carelessly so that nothing that is not green will survive.

I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.

Veía las fuerzas opuestas de su destino y de su voluntad confluir ahora velozmente, hacia una conjunción que sería irrevocable; pensó con cautela.

He'd made the classic mistake, the one he'd sworn he'd never make.

You think this is a trap then? the Count asked. I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise, the Prince answered. Which is why I'm still alive.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)

So you think this is a trap then? the Count said. I think everything is a trap. which is why I am still alive. said the prince

Be careful, this is the greatest fencer since the death of the Wizard of Corsica. Do not burgle.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a single wound. Not so are victories either over enemies or over nature gained. Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. At any rate, it seems the fittest thing for the empiricist philosopher.

But the Fuehrer had smelled a rat

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.

He who is foolish finds disaster

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Checklists provide insurance against overconfidence.