Quotes about Cautionary Measures

Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Ernst Zundel

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

Sophocles

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

Benjamin Franklin

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Anthony Horowitz

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

Janette Rallison

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

Emil Cioran

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Robert Peel

It is a lamentable reflection that a man may be at the same time so insane as to be reckless of his own life and the lives of others, and to be pronounced free from moral responsibility, and yet capable of preparing for the commission of murder with the utmost caution and deliberation, and of taking every step which shall enable him to commit it with certainty.

The Prime Minister was complaining about a British high court decision that ruled that a person who had committed premeditated murder was insane at the time of the murder and therefore not criminally responsible. Many politicians complain about the same situation today. This quotation however was about the original MacNaghten defendant for whom the legal rule of insanity defense was named.

William Bligh

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

Leon Kass

There are lots of things that science will enable us to do that we shouldn’t do.

Samara Weaving

Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead.

Elbert Hubbard

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

Daniel Handler

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

Cautionary Measures Quotes