Quotes About Caution

Taking things for granted is a good way to get yourself killed. – Scourge

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going or it will become a snare in your midst

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger.

The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know that you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

We stopped in our tracks. I said, "Man, let's not get ourselves killed doing this. Let's discuss this." Scott sat down facing out, looking down at me. I figured, if a big spindrift slide comes down now, we're going to get washed off the face.

she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

The idea that any rash answer might provoke an unpleasant outburst tempered her disgust with caution, and she answered with a laugh.

She would not take more risks than she could help, and it was admiration, not love, that she wanted.

minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

He that sets his home on fire because his fingers are frostbitten can never be a fit instructor in the method of providing our habitations with a cheerful and salutary warmth.

I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

When they smile, I see blood trickling down their faces; I see their insidious purposes; I see that the object of all their cajoling is—blood! I now warn my countrymen to beware of these execrable philosophers, whose only object it is to destroy every thing that is good here, and to establish immorality and murder by precept and example—'Hic niger est hunc tu Romane caveto' ['Such a man is evil; beware of him, Roman'. Horace, Satires I. 4. 85.].

Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name." "I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.

Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones." T. Roosevelt

Well warned to beware with whom he dar'd to dallie.