Henry Fielding Quotes

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.

I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

No one will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself.

I think most people are motivated to want to do what is best for themselves. People want to avoid STDs. I believe in a system that leaves it up to the individual to protect their own health.