Caution Quotes - Page 16

• Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

  David Seabury

  Stupid, Men, Giving

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• We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Precaution, Thinness, Sharpness

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• It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

  Tony Abbott

  Justice, Fit, Should

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• I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Writing, Gentleman

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.416, OUP Oxford

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• Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Husband, Men, Wife

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 183, 1958.

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• Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

  E. M. Forster

  Integrity, Character, Class

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• A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Real, Food, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.624, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be cautious and bold.

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Cautious, Be Cautious

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• People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Sleep, People

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• Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Self, Warning, Contradictory

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