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