Quotes About Caution

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.

Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.

Being nice to that woman is like feeding a baby shark so it can grow big enough to eat you.

suspiciously.

Pete Carroll was a victim of our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome. Poker players have a word for this: "resulting." When I started playing poker, more experienced players warned me about the dangers of resulting, cautioning me to resist the temptation to change my strategy just because a few hands didn't turn out well in the short run.

I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.

As cricketers and professionals, with the scrutiny that is on us, we have to obviously be careful and behave ourselves.

I have already sent advice to candidates and what I have said was 'be aware that your social media profile is now fair game, you can't expect people not to take it into account. Think about what you say and how you say it when you use social media.'

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.

You can't itch on the prosthetic, or else you will rip it, and it's really expensive.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.

A prudent scepticism is the most profitable quality a man can have.

Don't pet a burning dog.

No, dear.  It's not that sort of thing.  I have this feeling you'll be in danger there.