Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs. — Larry Page Copy Share Image
“Stay healthy so that you can use your wealth to buy pleasures and not painkillers.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be… — Susanna Centlivre Copy Share Image
“Sweating during a workout is not your body losing the water, it’s your body losing the weight.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
God's more in control than we are. Obviously you still take all the precautions and safety measures inside your car. — Matt Kenseth Copy Share Image
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in… — Marc MacYoung Copy Share Image
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds… — Bee Dawson Copy Share Image
To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“No amount of precaution can alter the fact that life is precarious. When the inevitable happens, you can accept the damage or… — Benjamin Dancer Copy Share Image
Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.” — Dave Duncan Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down. — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to… — L. William Seidman Copy Share Image
We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions. — Li Yizhong Copy Share Image
No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet … No national law, no national precautions can save the… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image