Joey Adams Quotes

The cautious seldom err.

People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not... I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

When in doubt, don't.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

I'm a lot of things, but I'm not reckless.

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

Look before you leap.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

To think twice is quite enough.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.