We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

(about William Blake)[Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God is merely prudence, and the restrainer and inhibitor of energy, which results in fear and passivity and imaginative death.And what we so often call reason and think is so fine, is not intelligence or understanding at all, but just this: it is arguing from our *memory* and the sensations of our body and from the warnings of other people, that if we do such and such a thing we will be uncomfortable. It won't pay. People will think it is silly. No one else does it. It is immoral.But the only way you can grow in understanding and discover whether a thing is good or bad, Blake says, is to do it. Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.For this Reason as Blake calls it (which is really just caution) continually nips and punctures and shrivels the imagination and the ardor and the freedom and the passionate enthusiasm welling up in us. It is Satan, Blake said. It is the only enemy of God. For nothing is pleasing to God except the invention of beautiful and exalted things. And when a prominent citizen of his time, a logical, opining, erudite, measured, rationalistic, Know-it-all, warned people against mere enthusiasm, Blake wrote furiously (he was a tender-hearted, violent and fierce red-haired man): Mere enthusiasm is the All in All!

The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

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

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

Look the other way when the girl at the teahouse smiles.

Though the snake be small, it is wise to hit it with a big stick.

The dry reed does not seek the company of the fire.

Where the road bends abruptly take short steps.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously ...

Take warning in the mischance of others, that others may not take warning of thine.

Trust in God-but tie your camel first.

Take Care then, mother's son, lest you become a dancer disinherited in mid-dance hanging a lame foot in air like the hen in a strange unfamiliar compound. Pray protect this patrimony to which you must return when the song is finished and the dancers disperse.