caution quotes

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.

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.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

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

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

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Let no such man be trusted.

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.

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

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

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

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

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

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.

Trust, but verify.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

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

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

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

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.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

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

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

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

He that’s secure is not safe.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.