Quotes About Caution

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

One swallow never makes a summer.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.

Don't invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, " she used to warn me.

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky.

Sometimes careful just isn't good enough.