Caution

(209 votes)   Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(176 votes)   Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(174 votes)   Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverbs
Sayings of Swedish Origin

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(154 votes)   Beware of silent dogs and still waters.

Portuguese Proverbs
Sayings of Portuguese Origin

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(143 votes)   Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(121 votes)   If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.

Persian Proverbs
Sayings of Persian Origin

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(113 votes)   Always count the cost.

American Proverbs
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(113 votes)   It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(107 votes)   Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(96 votes)   Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1922-, American Novelist

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(96 votes)   Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(91 votes)   He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(88 votes)   Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950, American Poet

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(74 votes)   To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(72 votes)   When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.

Proverbs

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