Hasten slowly. [ Augustus Caesar ]
Pitchers have ears. [ William Shakespeare ]
Be cautious and bold. [ Rothschild ]
The cautious seldom err. [ Confucius ]
A hare is not caught with a drum. [ La Fontaine ]
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. [ Cervantes ]
Little boats should keep near shore. [ Franklin ]
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. [ Victor Hugo ]
Who escapes the snare
Once, has a certain caution to beware. [ Chapman ]
What thou seest, speak of with caution. [ Solon ]
Caution is the lower story of prudence. [ Carlyle ]
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. [ Euripides ]
All is to be feared where all is to be lost. [ Byron ]
When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
Trust none,
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer cakes.
And hold-fast is the only doer. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every step of life shows how much caution is required. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Caution, though very often wasted. is a good risk to take. [ H. W. Shaw ]
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. [ Publius Syrius ]
Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Man's caution often into danger turns, and his guard falling crushes him to death. [ Young ]
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]
To nil married men be this caution, which they should duly tender as their life: Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. [ Massinger ]
I knew a wise man who had it for a by-word when he saw men hasten to a conclusion: Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
[ Bacon ]
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The way out of our narrowness may not be so easy as the way in. The weasel that creeps into the corn-bin has to starve himself before he can leave by the same passage. [ Bartol ]
Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]