Quotes About Caution

Always be wary of the Software Engineer who carries a screwdriver.

I met this guy who said he loved children, then I found out he was on parole for it.

Never floss with a stranger.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

The Titanic is a great lesson of why just the tip can get you in a lot of trouble.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese souffle.

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.

When you're used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next corner on a dead run, the best hiding places if bullets start to fly...

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never even expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare climb higher. That's the problem with midway.

sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher.

Obviously no one has ever cautioned you against pricking the vanity of proud men or wild animals; neither is completely predictable." "And which of those categories do you fit into?" "I'll leave the choice solely to your discretion," he mused and bowed solicitously.

Near the top of any girl's list of dumb things to do would be, 'Take a walk by yourself late at night.

Be careful what you wish for is a very useful adage in all things magical.

I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all "but what if it takes over the station's systems and kills everybody" and Pin-Lee told them "if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now," which in hindsight was probably not the best response.