Quotes About Caution

Fine! Whatever! Just be careful, my hands are still slippery with your blood.

CAVE CANEM Cav canem!

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

There've been more campaigns sunk by people who feel they've gotta write a memo ... so when you put anything on paper, just assume it's gonna be on the front page the next day. If it can't be—don't write it.

Baron Rothschild quipped that there are "three principal ways to lose your money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far more certain.

Watch out for dirty tricks. Complain loudly.

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

She sat on her porch those first nights, wrapped in the brackish tidal air. The future's breeze split across her face and joined up again behind her. She felt herself a spinster whose sudden new suitor must be either sadistic, blind, or a confused fortune hunter. She'd read all the cautionary fairy tales and knew the one inevitable outcome. Still, she consented to this courtship, and even decided to court it back.

wouldn't turn away . . . but having made all those calculations, I thought the blast might be rather bigger than expected. So I put on some suntan lotion.

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbor.

Rush life like a yellow light.

Yeah, well," Nico said, "not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone, Annabeth warned. If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are. Land mines?

OPEN WITH CARE. TRIPPLE G RANCH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE, MAIMING, OR EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL DEATHS.

I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too.

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

YEAH, I KNOW. You guys are going to read about how I died in agony, and you're going be like, "Wow! That sounds cool, Magnus! Can I die in agony too?" No. Just no. Don't go jumping off any rooftops. Don't run into the highway or set yourself on fire. It doesn't work that way. You will not end up where I ended up.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

A Styrofoam egg carton caught his eye. He opened it and found a single silver orb with little blinking red lights. This is cool, too! He dropped it into his backpack. Dan, no! What? They've got plenty of other stuff, and we need all the help we can get! It could be dangerous. I hope so.

Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron