Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Caution - Cautious Quotes
Whenever our neighbor’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little water on our own. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don’t the apples will rot anyway.
There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.
The cautious seldom err.
Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.
The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the […]
