A Quote by Neil Gaiman

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

Neil Gaiman

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Advise Caution Merely Threaten

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Neil Gaiman
British - Author
Born: November 10, 1960

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

Horace

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

Martin Schulz

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

Leon Panetta

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

Nancy Pearcey

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Aldo Leopold

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

Lord Chesterfield

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Yair Lapid

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

John Ortberg

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

Jean-Luc Godard

It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.

Mitch McConnell

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Vaclav Havel

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Stephen Breyer

Threaten me, but don't threaten my wife or say something about my kids. It's just wrong.

Zaza Pachulia

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.