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Caution Quotes
"There was nothing wrong with fire as long as you didn't stand too close. Something to keep in mind."
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"If you invite a snake into your home, do not be surprised if it bites you."
8
"Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning."
8
"There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly do to speak to him in the manner in which you have sometimes spoken to me. He will not find it as diverting as I do."
7
"Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything."
7
"Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident."
7
"Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey."
6
"The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people."
5
"It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river."
5
"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
4
"If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown."
4
"People with Sweet Relationships [those favoring you, always talk good] with you, will make you stumble."
4
"But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything."
3
"It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication."
3
"Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth."
3
"Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead."
3
"Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have."
3
"Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be."
3
"Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that."
3
"Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation."
2
"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."
2
"So if you are confused, please remember " don't help anybody, because your help is going to be poisonous. If you are confused don't be occupied with others, because you are simply creating trouble, your disease will become infectious. Don't give advice to anyone, and if you have a little clarity of thought, don't take advice from someone who is confused. Remain alert, because confused people always like to give advice. And they give it free of charge, they give it very generously!"
2
"Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud."
2
"Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest."
2
"The source of a river is narrow. If you could jump over it in a twinkle of an eye at the source, be sure to ponder before you jump over it at its mid or its estuary."
2
"Be careful who you share your dreams with whilst they are still in the creation stage. Doubt kills dreams."
2
"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."
2
"There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly."
2
"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly."
2
"Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!"
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