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Quotes About Caution

When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.
~ Jack Goldstein
If there's one thing I've learned in my short and unhappy life it's never to expect anything and to be particularly suspicious of that which is apparently served up on a plate.
~ Jack Higgins
We must trust everyone and no-one
~ Unknown
I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can't keep their mouths shut.
~ Jack McDevitt
who have shielded themselves from its risks—at the cost of limiting their pleasures.
~ Unknown
It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it.
~ Unknown
It's good to be open-minded, but not so open that your brains fall out. -Jacob Needleman
~ Jacob Needleman
Think carefully about what you say, Assassin
~ Jacquelyn Frank
No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
~ Unknown
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
~ James A. Michener
Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you . . . but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.
~ James Alan Gardner
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.
~ Luke Scott
Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
~ Lydia M. Child
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
~ Lydia M. Child
Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. — Lydia Maria Child
~ Lydia Maria Child
When we ran, if we chose to, we ran like flashes of silk. We had the vigor of those freshly born. Relatively speaking. And no, we wouldn't be like this forever. We knew it, on a rational level. But the idea that those garbage-like figures that tottered around the great house were a vision of what lay in store—hell no. Had they had goals once? A simple sense of self-respect? They shamed us. They were a cautionary tale.
~ Lydia Millet
At court you must say less than you think and only speak as much of the truth as will do you good.
~ Lynn Flewelling
SECRET #16 If you're not careful, you can lose a friend even faster than you made one.
~ Unknown
this country is so new to us and so old to the world, and its emptiness should have been a warning rather than an invitation—
~ Unknown
The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn't even know it, or it wouldn't matter.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
Funny to think that he would certainly have done it, only a week ago, without thinking about the dangers.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
Prudence is a sorry matchmaker...
~ Unknown