Quotes About Caution

Bring home one dismembered body part, once, mind you, once, and people get twitchy about checking your luggage ever after.

If he's dumb enough to tempt a woman wielding a knife, then he deserves everything after that.

I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in." Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. "This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark." "Then use a harpoon.

You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.

I tried to live cautiously - or eventually learned to try to live - in a spirit of regret prevention, and I could not see how Bonnie could accomplish such a thing in this situation. Regret - operatic, oceanic, fathomless - seemed to stretch before her in every direction. No matter which path she took, regret would stain her feet and scratch her arms and rain down on her, lightlessly and lifelong. It had already begun.

I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.

Não é porque ela fosse feia, não, ela poderia mesmo ser considerada bonita, como tantas outras, mas era tão prudente, tão desconfiada que parava à margem da sua beleza, como à margem da vida.

I was a child in those days, and that jail frightened me. Because I didn't know what men are like. Never again will I believe what they say or what they think. Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.

And then there's the gun itself. No man in his right mind will play with a gun. I've seen show-offs doing fancy spins and all that. No real gun-fighter ever did. With a hair-trigger, he'd be likely to blow a hole in his belly. The gun-fighter knows enough of guns to be wary of them. He treats them with respect. A pistol was never made for anything except killing, and a gunfighter never draws a gun unless to shoot, and he shoots to kill.

Men distrust strangers, so have a few places where you are known Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but not too well. Not

At another time she had said, "Do not be afraid. A little fear can make one cautious. Too much fear can rob you of initiative. Respect fear, but use it for an incentive, do not let it bind you or tie you down.

Not even a mouse trusts himself to one hole only

who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant

Be friendly with all men and censure none, tell nobody too much of your affairs and remember in all dealings with men, or women, to keep one hand upon the doorlatch Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in your mind, at least.

Not even a marshrat will trust itself to one hole only, so always have an escape route, and more than one, if it can be.

One of the ways to avoid trouble was to see it before it got to you.

Sakim had taught me to be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.

He did not take chances, but had helped to bury men who did.

every stranger is a possible enemy. He

When a man has enemies he had best beware, and

Many times the first man to move was the first to die

kept him from going forward. His innate caution