Hasten slowly.

Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

Always count the cost.

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Vigilance is the virtue of vice.