Quote: The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Author: Alfred Adler 1870-1937, Austrian Psychiatrist
Quote: Hasten slowly.
Author: Caesar Augustus 63 BC - AD 14-, Founder of Roman Empire
Quote: Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father. [Matthew 18:10]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: Look twice before you leap.
Author: Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855, British Novelist
Quote: Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
Author: Lydia M. Child 1802-1880, American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor
Quote: Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: Beware the hobby that eats.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Author: A. W. Hare
Quote: Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher
Quote: Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950, American Poet
Quote: Caution is the parent of safety.
Author: Proverb
Quote: When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.
Author: Proverb
Quote: Always count the cost.
Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Don't dance on a volcano.
Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
Author: Persian Proverb Sayings of Persian Origin
Quote: Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
Author: Portuguese Proverb Sayings of Portuguese Origin
Quote: Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Author: Swedish Proverb Sayings of Swedish Origin
Quote: Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A mousetrap always provides free cheese.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1922-, American Novelist
Quote: Vigilance is the virtue of vice.
Author: C. J. Weber
Quote: Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA