quotations about caution
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The Conquest of Happiness
Caution should always be the prime form of interaction or approach with any unknown quantity.
STEVEN REDHEAD
Life Is Simply a Game
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733
The goal is to hit the sweet spot of maximum value optimization, where foolish risk is balanced against excessive caution.
STEVEN J. BOWEN
Total Value Optimization
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
If you can't be good, be careful.
ENGLISH PROVERB
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,
And that craves wary walking.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.
ANDREA CREMER
The Conjurer's Riddle
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON
Agamemnon
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.
JIGORO KANO
Kodokan Judo
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
You have reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.
INGRID BETANCOURT
Even Silence Has an End
Careful is a naked man climbin' a barbwire fence.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
There's no one so cautious as the man who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.
DUTCH PROVERB
The wise one is cautious and turns away from evil, but the stupid one is reckless and overconfident.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 14:16
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
Darklost
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Look before you leap.
AESOP
"The Fox and the Goat", Aesop's Fables