quotes about Caution
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We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
-- Bill Walsh -
The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.
-- Carl Levin -
Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
-- Carrie Underwood -
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All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.
-- Chris Matthews -
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way
-- Emily Dickinson -
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Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.
-- Gail Jones -
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
-- Gary BlairSource : "Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.
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Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.
-- George Carman -
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Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
-- George Washington -
Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
-- HesiodSource : Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.21, Courier Corporation
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When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
-- Horace -
I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
-- J. C. Watts -
The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
-- J. Oswald SandersSource : J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers
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What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.
-- Jessica ZafraSource : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”
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Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
-- John Chafee -
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
-- John Ray -
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
-- Lancelot Hogben -
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Call it not paranoia, but caution.
-- Laura Anne GilmanSource : Laura Anne Gilman (2009). “Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
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Courage is caution overcome.
-- Lyman AbbottSource : Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
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Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
-- Lynne Truss -
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You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.
-- P. T. Barnum -
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.
-- Sheldon Vanauken -
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
-- Tahereh Mafi -
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Be cautious and bold.
-- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild -
Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
-- William BlighSource : William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.22
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One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.
-- Bahya ibn Paquda -
Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.
-- Daniel O'Connell -
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I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."
-- Meital Dohan -
Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.
-- Donald Griffin