Quotes About Caution

Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

No! Amy said. Dan, you're lucky it was only concussive. You could've wiped out the whole Holt family. And that would've been bad because...?

No good news awaits I warned you right at the start Turn away, reader

Never assume you're safe, and never, ever tempt the Fates by announcing that you think you're safe.

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 won't end up where I ended up.

Note to self, Leo thought groggily. Do not leave boxes of magic grenades where dwarfs can reach them.

Discretion being the better part of valour

let's face it, no one warned you about anything.

In Jackson's experience it was often best to avoid the thing you were afraid of. Discretion really was sometimes the better part of valor.

You have the hey to the library, he said. Only be careful what you read.

Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

Still, she would rather be on the lookout, sharp, overreacting, than to be caught asleep and dull-witted. When the bomb came to rip her apart, she would at least see it coming. She wanted to die on her toes if she had to die at all.

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales.

Beware of the brokenhearted," said the grandmother, "for they will lead you astray.

Mark that it is dangerous. Trouble has a very long tail.

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

Proceed cautiously with people who can no longer be bowled over by wonder.

There's an old saying: 'be careful what you wish for; you might get it.'" "Oh, gods." A quaver shook Ilya's voice. "The bargains we make with the gods never fall out as we think they will.

L'âme d'autrui est une forêt obscure où il faut marcher avec précaution. (The soul of another is a dark forest in which one must tread carefully.)

Handle with care - everything - even the predators.

In her experience, language cannot be trusted. Words are weapons to be deployed cautiously.

It's the ones who don't tell you they are informing," he said, "that you have to worry about.

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Then suddenly, with the skeleton in an obscene heap on the desktop, she turned away and began telling us how we had to be careful who we had sex with. Not just because of the diseases, but because, she said, "sex affects emotions in ways you'd never expect." We had to be extremely careful about having sex in the outside world, especially with people who weren't students, because out there sex meant all sorts of things.