Caution Quotes! 50 Caution Sayings and Sweet Warning Quotes
Caution Quotes
“The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.” —Stephen King
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” —Socrates
“At one point he decided enough was enough.” —Steven Wright
“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.” —Ayn Rand
“It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.” —Herbert Hoover
“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.” —It , Stephen King
“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
“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.” —John Ruskin
“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.” —Bette Davis
Caution Sayings and Sweet Warning Quotes
“Always be prepared.” —Unknown
“Pick your poison.” —Unknown
“Walls have ears.” —Unknown
“Once bitten, twice shy.” —Unknown
“A watched pot never boils.” —Unknown
“Easy does it.” —T. Taylor
“Ill weeds grow fast.” —John Heywood
“One thing leads to another.” —Unknown
“Be careful what you wish for.” —Unknown
“Look before you leap.” —John Heywood
“Mind your p’s and q’s.” —English Proverb
“Penny wise, pound foolish.” —Robert Burton
“Beware the Greeks bearing gifts.” —Virgil
“Nothing seems expensive on credit.” —Czech (on indebtedness)
“The second word makes the quarrel.” —Japanese Proverb
“Be ever vigilant but never suspicious.” —English (on vigilance)
“Better to be safe than sorry.” —Samuel Lover
“Creditors have better memories than debtors.” —English (on business)
“Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.” —Aesop
“A fool and his money are quickly parted.” —J. Bridges
“Beware the door with too many keys.” —Portuguese (on vigilance)
“Beware the fury of a patient man.” —John Dryden
“Eggs have no business dancing with stones.” —Haitian (on prudence)
“It’s an ill wind that blows no good.” —John Heywood
“Sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.” —Colonial American Saying
“Sleeping people can’t fall down.” —Japanese (on caution and care)
“Be careful what you ask for; you may get it.” —Unknown
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” —John Philpot Curran
“Keep no more cats than will catch mice.” —J. Dare
“Measure a thousand times; cut once.” —Turkish (on caution and care)
“Only a fool tests the water with both feet.” —African Proverb
“Out of the frying pan, into the fire.” —John Heywood
“Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it.” —Korean (on vigilance)
“Don’t sail out farther than you can row back.” —Danish (on prudence)
“Fish don’t get caught in deep water.” —Malay (on caution and care)
“Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.” —Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
“He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.” —Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
“Hear reason or she will make you feel her.” —Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
“Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” —R. Taverner (1539)
“Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.” —Hausa (West African) (on planning)
“If you are going a long way, go slowly.” —Ilocano (Filipino) (on journeys)
“Once a word is spoken, it flies, you can’t catch it.” —Russian Proverb
“The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake.” —Tagalog (Filipino)(on vigilance)
“The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting.” —Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
“A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.” —Horace
“Do not allow sins to get beyond creeping.” —Hawaiian (on the conduct of life)
“If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.” —Swedish (on thrift)
“If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.” —Bulgarian (on caution and care)
“It’s but little good you’ll do a ring the last year’s crop.” —George Eliot (1819-1880)
“One must not play on the nose of a sleeping bear.” —German (on prudence)
“Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.” —Egyptian (on caution and care)
“The crab that walks too far, falls into the pot.” —Haitian (on caution and care)
“Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome person.” —Iranian (on caution and care)
“Fear the Greeks bearing gifts.” —Virgil (70-19 BC) “I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.”
“Never reveal the bottom of your purse or the depth of your mind. —Italian (on caution and care)
“The prudent embark when the sea is calm e rash when the sea is stormy.” —Maori (on prudence)