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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom -- Victor Hugo
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. -- Russell Baker
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The scars of others should teach us caution. -- St. Jerome
Distrust and caution are the parents of security. -- Benjamin Franklin
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. -- Wernher von Braun
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. -- Thomas S. Monson
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. -- J. K. Rowling
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. -- Emma Goldman
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -- Joseph Addison
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -- George Washington
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. -- William James
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. -- Euripides
Action makes more fortune than caution. -- Luc de Clapiers
Caution is the path to mediocrity. -- Frank Herbert
Caution is the lower story of prudence. -- Thomas Carlyle
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. -- Woodrow Wilson
Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto. -- John Chafee
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often. -- Robert Jordan
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses -- Bill Walsh
I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution." -- Meital Dohan
Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take. -- Josh Billings
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. -- Walter Scott
The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. -- Carl Levin
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. -- Franz Grillparzer
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. -- Neil Armstrong
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. -- Alfred Adler
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From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept. -- Samuel Johnson
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. -- George Washington
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. -- Benjamin Franklin
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream. -- Walter Savage Landor
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. -- Frank Herbert
You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers. -- Robin Benway
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice! -- John Brown
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
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
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins
Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness. -- Leon Panetta
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush. -- John Ortberg
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game. -- Dan Dierdorf
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O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play. -- Robert Burns
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
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. -- Lydia M. Child
Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds. -- Thomas a Kempis
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. -- Condoleezza Rice
Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales; But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas! With all his canvas set, and inexpert, And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power? -- William Cowper
Action makes more fortune than caution -- Vauvenargues, Marquis de
Throw caution to the wind and just do it. -- Carrie Underwood
Every step of life shows much caution is required. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice -- Michael Jackson
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. -- Sun Tzu
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. -- Alvin Toffler
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness -- Bertrand Russell
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
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels. -- Gerald Clarke
Take heed never take advantage of the things you need never let yourself be overcome by greed walk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed -- Shaggy
When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution. -- Johann Rupert
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
I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip. -- Rachel Nichols
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. 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
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded. -- Marcus Buckingham
It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit. -- Neil Patrick Harris
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. -- Elon Musk
Courage is caution overcome. -- Lyman Abbott
Confident because of our caution -- Epictetus
Haste makes work which caution prevents. -- William Penn
Call it not paranoia, but caution. -- Laura Anne Gilman
We must substitute courage for caution. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Action makes more fortune than caution. -- Luc de Clapiers
We must substitute courage for caution. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. -- Ambrose Bierce
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry. -- Otto von Bismarck
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom. -- Edmund Burke
Redd shed caution like an outgrown skin. -- Frank Beddor
What thou seest, speak of with caution. -- Solon
United will break caution to the wind -- Glenn Hoddle
Curiosity is the other side of caution. -- Temple Grandin
I do not threaten, I merely advise caution. -- Neil Gaiman
Exercise caution, as I have advised many people. -- George Carman
Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand? -- Lynne Truss
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. -- Bill Walsh
The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution. -- Jim Rohn
It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution. -- Tony Abbott
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution. -- Barbara Tuchman
Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. -- Josh Billings
One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious. -- Bahya ibn Paquda
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution -- Abraham Lincoln
Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm. -- Donald Griffin
Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation. -- Alexander Lebedev
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. -- Baltasar Gracian
What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution. -- Jessica Zafra
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. -- Walter Bagehot
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. -- Lancelot Hogben
...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution. -- Ernest Gellner
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. -- Publilius Syrus
While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution. -- Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution. -- Chris Matthews
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. -- J. K. Rowling
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. -- John Dryden
I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. -- Elizabeth I
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. -- Charles Caleb Colton
An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution. -- Connie Brockway
I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies. -- Mark Hatfield
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution. -- J. Oswald Sanders
You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out. -- P. T. Barnum
Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you. -- Stephen Colbert
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet ... -- M. F. K. Fisher
Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution. -- Bill Rodgers
Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. -- Erin McCarthy
I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to. -- Tahereh Mafi
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution -- Claude C. Hopkins
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. -- James Thomson

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