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Quotes About Caution

Peace is dangerous because it encourages complacency and carelessness
~ Octavia E. Butler
It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Dad warned us all about water stations, trying to prepare us in case we ever went out and got caught far enough from home to be tempted to stop for water. His advice: "Don't do it. Suffer. Get your rear end home." Yeah.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Why do you always expect the worst of everyone?' When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
If called by a panther, don't anther
~ Ogden Nash
A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.
~ Unknown
It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
She passed through her childhood blindfolded, picking her way cautiously along, sensitive fingertips stretched out before her to avoid sharp corners and unyielding walls, clinging close to the protection of solitude and isolation.
~ Unknown
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.
~ Unknown
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
~ Omar N. Bradley
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
~ Os Guinness
you didn't know enough to distrust others
~ Osamu Dazai
Me había engañado pensando en que Shigeko era diferente, pero no. También ella era la vaca que da un latigazo fulminante e inesperado con la cola para matar a un tábano. Entonces supe que, a partir de ese momento, debería ser tímido incluso con aquella niña
~ Unknown
Don't go looking for trouble rather avoid it.
~ Unknown
Don't try to be too clever. And when purposefully misspelling common words, proceed with caution.
~ Unknown
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
~ Oscar Wilde
Care, says the proverb, once killed a cat. It may be so, but it has killed never another.
~ Unknown
Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.
~ Unknown