Quotes About Caution

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.

I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.

We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.

I don't know what popping-and-locking is but I know to lock my car door whenever people are doing it.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Never be curious. It is the path to perdition.

In today's world more harm may be done by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm.

I've seen more institutions damaged by too much caution than by rashness, though I've seen both.

It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under—do as to over—do what Scripture says.

Fear of harm ought to be proportional not merely to the gravity of the harm, but also to the probability of the event.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but don't put all your eggs in one basket.

And stay away from bushes. Why? Dude, this is South Africa home of the cobras. And I don't mean the hot ones like Ian.

Only invest what you could afford to lose without that loss having any effect on your daily life in forseable future.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho...even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.

De manera que debo advertirle que cualquier cosa que piense podrá emplearse contra usted.

On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.

You used to be optimistic. You used to think that whatever we did would turn out well. Even after we came back from the north, you used to think that. Now you're cautious, you're anxious… You're pessimistic. She knew he was right, but it wasn't right that he should speak to her accusingly, as if it was something to blame her for. I used to be young, was all she could find to say.

You used to be optimistic. You used to think that whatever we did would turn out well. Even after we came back from the north, you used to think that. Now you're cautious, you're anxious…you're pessimistic." She knew he was right, but it wasn't right that he should speak to her so accusingly, as if it was something to blame her for. "I used to be young," was all she could find to say.

Keep your powder dry.

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?