Cautious Man Quotes

#1. There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)

John C. Maxwell

#2. A cautious man would've backed off. Not me. Yielding would basically have told him he'd won. I was tougher and I'd prove it. If it cost me a limb, screw it.

Veronica Rossi

#3. It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

W.K. Marriott

#4. Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around.

Bear Grylls

#5. The life you want doesn't want you - until you are worthy.

Bryant McGill

#6. True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him.

Leanne Payne

#7. Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions

Stella Gibbons

#8. People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

Russel Honore

#9. Why didn't you tell me?" Vera looked cautious. "Tell you what? I said he was talented.""Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap-dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor. An ejaculation of truth.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#10. Fiction gives me power.

Maureen A. Miller

#11. The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

Catharine Beecher

#12. Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

Oscar Wilde

#13. If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, "It seems to be raining," on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.

Dashiell Hammett

#14. He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.

Stonewall Jackson

#15. Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.

Howard Staunton

#16. Man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpty once that is meddled with - though some of them paid the fact a cautious lipservice.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Nick Frost

#18. One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too!

Bruce LaBruce

#19. The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kingdom. Lao-tsu replied that he should rule the kingdom in the way you would cook a small fish. How do you cook a small fish? In the steady, cautious, caring way you undress a woman.

Chloe Thurlow

#20. A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Edmund Burke

#21. I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

Theodore Roosevelt

#22. Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another.

Hermann Hesse

#23. I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.

Gene Luen Yang

#24. A man in love is cautious with the decisions he makes, words he says and actions he takes, so he never purposefully causes her pain. He believes in her when she struggles believing in herself. He is her foundation, where she feels safe to be her true self.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#25. THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute - under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

Walt Whitman

#26. Take it from me, every vote counts.

Al Gore

#27. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#28. Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

John Lubbock

#29. I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#30. The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

#31. When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

Confucius