We can teach prevention. For little kids, the best protection is that they should not be alone in public places. All children shou...ld be conscious of strangers, and be discriminating and wary of them. This won't make them grow up suspicious as long as they have adults around whom they know and can trust: relatives, friends of their parents, parents of friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like snow having second thoughts and coming back To be wary about this, to embellish that, as though life were a party... At which work got done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:... "Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put simply, conservatives highlight the government's role in promoting individual virtue but downplay the government's responsibil...ity to create a society in which virtue can flourish. Liberals are wary of regulating personal behavior, but would give government a powerful say over the shape of social and economic life. In essence, liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nineteenth-century novelist Thomas Love Peacock once remarked critically that "a poet in our times is a semi-barbarian in a ci...vilized community.... The march of his intellect is like that of a crab, backward." It is my suspicion that though many moderns would applaud what Peacock probably meant only ironically, there is a certain virtue in the sidelong retreat of the crab. He never runs, he never ceases to face what menaces him, and he always keeps his pincers well to the fore. He is a creature adapted by nature for rearguard action and withdrawal, but never rout. The true poet is just such a fortunate creation as the elusive crab. He is born wary and is frequently in retreat because he is a protector of the human spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very bad ...company, and was never invited to dinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watch...ful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things ob...scure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his App...etites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wa...ry as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »