Quotes About Caution

Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave.

The discovery suggested that an ambush might be in the making.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

You promise not to maim me? I promise to give fair warning before I maim you.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies." —John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters , 1774

One had to be careful with elbows and boys

The bees of my melancholy, which had rarely troubled me since we escaped that foul man Bellingham at Valley Forge, were buzzing inside my brainpan, fast overcoming my customary caution.

I wouldn't mention that to him, if I were you.> < Ah, but if you /were/ me, perhaps you would.> --Pirate King, chapter 9

Take care. It seems to me that people have only been saying that phrase on parting for the past few years or so. All of a sudden everyone started to say it, as if the whole country abruptly recognized that ours is a world which demands caution.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.