Quotes Tagged "caution"

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

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.

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.

Our survival is a result, not of caution or wisdom, but of pure luck.

To simply emote is not to express an opinion. Rather, it is an attempt to force a point of view that won’t stand on its own merits.

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.

Be mindful of your deeds when you get a voice in society

Don’t just cautiously step through life to reach death safely.

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.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question. [A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.