Sappho
Poet
"No honey for me, if it comes with a bee."
Caution quotes
Caution
64 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Caution is the eldest child of wisdom."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have."
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"Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom."
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"It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it."
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"Caution is the lower story of prudence."
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"A hare is not caught with a drum."
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"Forewarn'd, forearm'd."
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"We must substitute courage for caution."
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"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."
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"More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it."
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"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
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"I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed."
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"Caution is the path to mediocrity."
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"Every step of life shows much caution is required."
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"Confident because of our caution"
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"I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way"
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"Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day."
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"Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often."
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"I do not threaten, I merely advise caution."
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"We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin."
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