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Quotes About Caution

Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"
~ Joe Arpaio
I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.
~ Michael Lewis
My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.
~ George W. Bush
You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.
~ Christine Feehan, Dark Prince
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
~ Edmund Burke
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
~ Russel Honore
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
~ Brendan Behan
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.
~ Henry Taylor
Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fear is the mother of foresight.
~ Thomas Hardy
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
~ Alfred Sheinwold
Be very, very careful what you put into that head of yours, because you will never, ever get it out.
~ Thomas Wolsey
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.
~ Lakshmi
I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.
~ P. W. Botha
She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.
~ Johnny Mercer
You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.
~ Bubba Sparxxx
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.
~ Charlie Munger
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
~ Isaac Asimov
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
~ William Penn
Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.
~ John Gregory
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
~ Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam