Caution Quotes

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

~ Robert Frost

The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.

~ Anne Bishop

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

~ Criss Jami

To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

~ Anonymous

We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’‘No, you are gentle and soft.’‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’‘Like snake?’‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

~ Criss Jami

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

~ Tom Robbins

When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. (Trompe le pied.)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Caution: Poems are sweeter than chocolates.

~ Vikrmn

I know you don't want to be me. But I'd hate for you to ever feel like you're in my shadow. You're not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.

~ Gwenda Bond

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

~ A.j. Darkholme

Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I've learned my lesson. I know nothing.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

~ Jack Campbell

Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.

~ Auliq Ice

If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

~ Nenia Campbell

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

~ Criss Jami

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

~ Howard Tayler

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

~ Stendhal

Watch your back. Ain't a thing in armor worth trustin' out there.

~ Elizabeth Carlton

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.

~ A.j. Darkholme

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Be open minded to see the those that you can't trust.Be closed minded and keep ones within your trust.

~ Jonathan Suen

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

~ David Weber