Quotes About Caution

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

Courage is caution overcome.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?

Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Madamaska Falls, capital of caution, where the local population is content to be in raptures about changing the clock twice a year.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

I told you, I don't want you riding with me. Which is why I waited, Frieze explained patiently. To see what direction you were going in, so that I could make sure I took the opposite one. but of course, there may be wolves, or thieves, highwaymen or brigands, so I don't mind your company for the first hour or so.

My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.

But don't run too fast," my sister warned. "Remember he has to catch you.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.