Quotes About Caution

Take Care not to have an itching tongue, nor tingling ears; neither attract others, nor listen to backbiters. [Letter to Nepotian]

even in his own house, a man cannot use his eyes without danger.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

When someone's using an ATM, you want to be about six feet back. People get edgy around that ATM. They got their money out, their eyes are darting around. The other place I wanna be six feet away is urinals. ATMs and urinals–whenever someone's taking something valuable out of their pants you want to give them as much room as possible.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.

Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

Be careful how you interpret the world: it really is like that.

that I ventured as far as my position would allow and by historical analogy warned men as solemnly as possible against half-educated leaders being permitted to lead nations into war.

You're remembering well today,' she said. 'Don't do it too much.

Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

Just as she goes and watch for that no-good Minerva. Keep well inside of that and outside the sand-spits.

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and—above all— apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.

Loose lips sink ships.

After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke.

excitement is interwoven with uncertainty, and with our willingness to embrace the unknown rather than to shield ourselves from it. But this very tension leaves us feeling vulnerable. I caution my patients that there is no such thing as "safe sex.

Clyman trying to warn Reed about the desolation he had just seen in the Great Salt Lake Desert. Remembering the conversation years later, Clyman said he told Reed to "take the regular wagon track, and never leave it—it is barely possible to get through if you follow it, and it may be impossible if you don't.

Beware of a man with manners.

Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .

You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.