Quotes about Caution

“Hasten slowly.”

“Always count the cost.”

“Don't dance on a volcano.”

“Look twice before you leap.”

“Beware the hobby that eats.”

“Vigilance is the virtue of vice.”

“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”

“Beware of one who has nothing to lose.”

“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

“Beware of silent dogs and still waters.”

“Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”

“He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.”

“Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.”

“Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”

“Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.”

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”

“It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.”

“Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.”

“Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.”

“Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.”

“It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.”

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

“Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”

“Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.”

“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”

“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

“The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”