Quotes about Caution

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

Beware the stranger offering gifts, as true for man as it is for fish

To open the book of another's life requires great care, as the pages must be turned with delicacy and caution -- but it is usually worth the effort.

it's best we not keep all our eggs in one basket.

Third, it is our responsibility to be extremely careful about making negative, decisive

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Better to remember goldilocks and three bears story my late uncle taught me that this quote for Doug devos ok