#caution

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#hazardous #may #solemnity #these #verses

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#course #destructive #even #failure #inaction

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me. ↗

— Joel Coen

#becomes #careers #cautionary #down #filmmakers

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#always #apply #caution #cold #cold war

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps. ↗

— Alan S. Kesselheim

#expedition #outdoors #age

Life has it woes so learn to be on your toes, be alert. ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#caution #learn #dreams

Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future. ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#dreams #future #dreams

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy. ↗

— Ally Carter

#precautions #spies #equality

The second mouse gets the cheese!" - The Inimitable Terry Pratchett ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mouse #proverb #retort #education

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoided #better #dangers #destiny #exceeds