Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.
. . . I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.
When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.
I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
