“ The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
“ If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
“ I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
“ What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
“ Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. ”
- Paul Dickson- Copy
“ I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said. ”
- Jeff Garcia- Copy
“ The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies. ”
- Georges Jacques Danton- Copy
“ When it comes to issues of security against terrorist threats as well as against infectious diseases, these threats know no borders. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
“ The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
“ Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address. ”
- Matt Groening- Copy
“ History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. ”
- James A. Garfield- Copy
“ If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. ”
- Catherine Aird- Copy
“ In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase with the warning 'do not eat this bookcase — it can be harmful to your health'. ”
- Bjorn Bayley- Copy
“ One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
“ The phrase "we simply must…" designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers. ”
- Lazarus Long- Copy
“ The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. ”
- Andrew Goodman- Copy
“ Warning: Authorities warn that "try" is a dangerous expression that has enormous power to influence your behavior. It's toxic. Use it very carefully. When "try" creeps into your language or into your thoughts, pluck it out quickly. ”
- Walter Anderson- Copy
“ The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used examples — do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings — don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
“ We're just trying to find meaning within all the madness. And if you find yourself saying 'you know, if I met myself last night, I would've thought I was an asshole,' that's one hell of a severe warning sign that you've gone too far with the madness. ”
- Brian Molko- Copy
“ People will frighten you about a graduation…They use words you don't hear often… And we wish you Godspeed. It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
“ I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. ”
- John Adams- Copy
“ I lost my father to colon cancer but am happy to say I have several family members who are long time cancer survivors. Everyone needs to be pro-active and know the various warning signs. We still need to find the cures, BUT early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must… ”
- Dennis Franz- Copy
“ I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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