Niya Caution Quotes
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
Aesop
Sleeping people can’t fall down.
African Proverb
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
Al Capone
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
Bahya ibn Paquda
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Benjamin Franklin
If you are going a long way, go slowly.
Benjamin Franklin
If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.
Benjamin Franklin
Ill weeds grow fast.
Benjamin Franklin
When in doubt, do nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Keep no more cats than will catch mice.
Bulgarian (on caution and care)
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.
Buyer beware.
Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
Carrie Underwood
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Czech (on indebtedness)
Eggs have no business dancing with stones.
Danish (on prudence)
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.
Egyptian (on caution and care)
Don’t be caught flat
English (on business)
Be ever vigilant but never suspicious.
English (on vigilance)
One thing leads to another.
English Proverb
Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.
Euripides
Hear reason or she will make you feel her.
Forewarn'd, forearm'd.
One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.
Frank Herbert
Never reveal the bottom of your purse or the depth of your mind.
George Eliot
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
George John Whyte-Melville
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
George Washington
Sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.
German (on prudence)
The second word makes the quarrel.
Haitian (on caution and care)
Fear the Greeks bearing gifts.
Haitian (on prudence)
Do not allow sins to get beyond creeping.
Hausa (West African) (on planning)
Don’t sail out farther than you can row back.
Hawaiian (on the conduct of life)
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Horace
It’s an ill wind that blows no good.
Ilocano (Filipino) (on journeys)
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome person.
Iranian (on caution and care)
Only a fool tests the water with both feet.
Italian (on caution and care)
Beware the person with nothing to lose.
Italian (on prudence)
A fool and his money are quickly parted.
J. Bridges
Nothing seems expensive on credit.
J. Dare
The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting.
Japanese (on caution and care)
You never know what lies right around the corner.
Japanese Proverb
Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.
Jean Webster
What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.
Jessica Zafra
Woodrow Wilson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Look before you leap.
John Heywood
Measure a thousand times; cut once.
John Heywood
Once a word is spoken, it flies, you can’t catch it.
John Heywood
Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it.
John Heywood
Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.
John Philpot Curran
Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.
Josh Billings
The prudent embark when the sea is calm
Korean (on vigilance)
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Latin American (on caution and care)
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Louis L'Amour
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
Mahatma Gandhi
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
Malay (on caution and care)
Whoever has a tail of straw should not get too close to the fire.
Maori (on prudence)
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Miguel de Cervantes
One must not play on the nose of a sleeping bear.
Mind your p's and q's.
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
Otto von Bismarck
Beware the door with too many keys.
Portuguese (on vigilance)
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Publilius Syrus
Better the devil you know than the one you don’t
R. Taverner
The crab that walks too far, falls into the pot.
Robert Burton
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Russian Proverb
Better to be safe than sorry.
Samuel Lover
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
Solon
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
St. Jerome
It’s but little good you’ll do a
Swedish (on thrift)
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
T. Taylor
Walls have ears.
Tagalog (Filipino)(on vigilance)
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Thomas Carlyle
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Thomas S. Monson
Once bitten, twice shy.
Turkish (on caution and care)
A watched pot never boils.
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Always be prepared.
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Be careful what you ask for; you may get it.
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Be careful what you wish for.
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Colonial American Saying
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Easy does it.
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It is a good thing to learn caution by from the misfortunes of others.
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Pick your poison.
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The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
Victor Hugo
Beware the Greeks bearing gifts.
Virgil
Fish don’t get caught in deep water.
Virgil
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone
And let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Walter Scott
Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
Zig Ziglar
