Caution Quotes - Page 8

• Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

  William S. Burroughs

  Maturity

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• Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild like a little monsoon. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true. She might kill everyone she loves.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Fall, Kissing

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.

  Alison Goodman

  Men, Hands, Years

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.46, Penguin

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• Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.

  Deb Caletti

  Ideas, Middle, Boxes

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

  Connie Brockway

  Intelligent, Littles, Mature

  Connie Brockway (2004). “My Pleasure”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

  Richelle Mead

  Essentials, Cost, Moments

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• How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

  James Lee Burke

  Yellow, Car, Earth

  James Lee Burke (2011). “A Billy Bob and Hackberry Holland Ebook Boxed Set: In the Moon of Red Ponies, Rain Gods, Excerpt from Feast Day of Fools”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Littles, Limits

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Teacher, Book, Taken

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• A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

  Jimmy Reid

  Race, Self, Silence

  "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

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• Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Attitude, Fall

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• Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

  Horace

  Latin, Voice, Together

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• Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.

  Kano Jigoro

  Cocky, Broken, Victory

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 25, 1994.

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• What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

  Jessica Zafra

  Simple, Age

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• When it’s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility for a greater number of people. I don’t do things that I will regret in the future. I tend to err on the side of caution. Not to mention the fact that the present world I reside in would not have been possible without my past. I am most proud of being able to represent my family and community with honour and dignity.

  Alek Wek

  Regret, Past, Thinking

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• Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

  Walter Bagehot

  Adventure, Banking, Commerce

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• The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Taught

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• Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Risk, Looks

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, Curls, Chance

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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• With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Gun, Common Sense

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• You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

  Mick Farren

  Fear, Real, Names

  Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.154, Macmillan

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• ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mother, Motherhood, Accountability

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.11, University of Georgia Press

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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