Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

When in doubt, don’t.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Trust, but verify.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

He that’s secure is not safe.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.