Quotes About Caution

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

The Seed of Chucky is not a good thing to watch before you get married.

You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say what's on my mind, it's probably not going to be good.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

I'd relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn't a guarantee for happiness.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

History is a vast early warning system.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.