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Quotes About Caution

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
~ Kim Wilde
It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.
~ Neil Gaiman
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
~ Larry Niven
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
~ Mason Cooley
I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful, So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful.
~ Joe Budden
I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.
~ Mylène Farmer
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
~ Sophocles
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
~ Samuel Johnson
Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
~ Philip K. Dick, Valis
There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.
~ C.J. Langenhoven
Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
~ Florence Earle Coates
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
~ Martial
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
~ Hilaire Belloc
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
~ William Shakespeare
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.
~ Unknown
Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
~ Virgil
It's fear that makes a situation dangerous.
~ Marilyn Wallace
Fear is prophetical of evil.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
~ David Attenborough
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.
~ Horace
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe