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Quotes About Caution

Don't give the man with the gun a reason to worry about you.
~ Lee Child
I saw it happening but could not stop it. Humility came to me too late. I'm a living proverb; learn from me.
~ Leif Enger
And now, because a story is told for all, an admonition to the mindsick: Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.
~ Leif Enger
Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
~ Lewis Carroll
that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison
~ Lewis Carroll
poison or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
~ Lewis Carroll
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
~ Libba Bray
Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.
~ Libba Bray
Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
~ Libba Bray
Quick answers often lead to quick regrets.
~ Libba Bray
Favor não grudar na minha traseira: corpo no porta-malas.
~ Libba Bray
Now listen: if the fires badly, don't you dare come back and haunt me.
~ Libba Bray
She knew better than to lose her head over a man. That was what was so humiliating: she knew better. Three broken engagements had taught her that a woman needed to keep her wits about her when dealing with the male species, or she could get seriously hurt.
~ Linda Howard
She came into the room, carrying a kerosene lantern this time, and Steven couldn't help cringing when he thought of the damage that could do. But
~ Linda Lael Miller
Premature action alerts the opposition.
~ Lindsey Davis
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
~ Lisa Gardner
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
~ Aesop
We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.
~ James Young
Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.
~ Pope Gregory I
Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.
~ Rumi
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.
~ Erma Bombeck
If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.
~ John G. Rowland
No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.
~ Brian Oldfield
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
~ Lance Armstrong