Caution Quotes

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer

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

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles Barkley

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead .
John H. Johnson

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Marquis de Sade

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
Ben Folds

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
Timothy Leary

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
John Mayer

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J. G. Ballard

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
Raymond Chandler

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
John Dean

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert Kiyosaki

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Henry Clay

It's no treat being in bed with me.
Howard Stern

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.
Richard Wright

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Julius Caesar

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
Hank Aaron

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee Williams