Quotes About Caution

It is better to be prepared for the rock that doesn't fall than to be hit on the head by the one that you didn't expect.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

those stupid tears to well again. You're being ridiculous, you know that, don't you? You just met this guy. He can't possibly mean that much to you already. But he did! He did. She knew both her mother and Lark had been right to caution her against jumping into anything, but where Sam was concerned, Amy could no more stop

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

really be suspicious.

My caution kicks in when I encounter either one of two sorts of dramatic theories: those that claim to have found the secret of consciousness, and those that claim that the brain mechanisms for consciousness can never be found.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.

One word of caution, though, should you ever buy commercial worms. If you go into a backwoods gas station and find a large, rough-looking woman behind the cash register, don't ask, "Do you have worms?" My friend Retch Sweeney did that a while back. He should get out of his full-body cast any day now.

I smell a rat.

Tread carefully, Marty. I mean it. The world has completely changed around you while you weren't looking.

He complained about what he perceived as unnecessarily alarmist cautionary language about the downsides of the drug. The warning "implies a danger of untoward reactions

Goldin knew about the drug, knew its reputation for being dangerously addictive. But her own history of hard drug use, rather than making her more cautious, could sometimes mean that she was cavalier. I can handle it, she figured.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing.

Wisdom precludes boldness.

Be wary of folly.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

As with many things, hesitation is better than hurry.

In closing, she advised me to drink more water, get some sleep, and suggested that in the future I refrain from strenuous physical activity in a hot room the day after falling off a roof.

As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.