Quotes About Caution

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

Social life almost ceased. Even in church, each worshipper was wary of his neighbour.

She said better safe than sorry. I said, that is a cliché, but Mum said things are only clichés because they are universal truths.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Majesty, there is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,"—"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

She could do anything back then, before she had maternal fear to spark any real caution in her soul.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem...Skye was used to hearing this phrase, which Mr. Penderwick translated loosely as look before you leap and please don't do anything crazy.

Shirley offered to drive us in her car, but Roger and I thought it was best if we took his car, since we knew that his vehicle was not equipped with a hidden button that you could press to make spikes burst out of the seats. Not that we thought Shirley's car had the spiked-seat feature, but it could have something ghastly, like a cobra compartment, and it just seemed like a wise idea not to let the possible serial killer drive.

You should be more careful." "I'm considering that. I've heard good things about that lifestyle.

I'm not good with speeding," said Shirley, sounding more than a little anxious. "The speed limits are there for a reason. Cars aren't meant to go fast.

I don't trust you! You're not trustworthy! No knife!" Dave held the tip of the knife above the tarantula. "I'm gonna poke it! Don't move!" I froze. Dave winced and clutched at his eye with his free hand. "Ow! The eggshell is still there!

This lady had more disclaimers than an antidepressant commercial.

Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.

We are a package deal, however. Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing extra time alone. Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Then that gets us labeled neurotic or crazy, first by others and then by ourselves.

At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?

There was playing with fire, and then there was setting yourself on fire.

Arthur feels an impulse to tell her he'd love to have her company anytime. He feels like she's the smallest little plant, dying from lack of water. But then he realizes he must tread carefully in this regard. People who don't feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.

Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.

And try not to make a habit of getting engaged in the first place, Vivvie. It can leade to marriage if you're not careful.

La experiencia me ha enseñado a ser cauta a la hora de conocer a mis héroes en persona; puede ser muy decepcionante

Be careful of your dignity, is what I am saying. It is not always your friend.