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Warning Quotes

Signals worth heeding before it's too late.

This collection treats warnings as both public and personal, opening with the idea that history itself works as a vast early warning system. Related themes appear in Age quotes, where hindsight and experience often carry their own cautions.

The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in blank verse, but, of course, that appealed to me.

Quotes by Tim Pigott-Smith

As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia.

Quotes by Stephanie Coontz

There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.

Quotes by Skylar Grey

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

About Quotes

It's not that we can predict bubbles - if we could, we would be rich. But we can certainly have a bubble warning system.

Quotes by Richard Thaler

History is a vast early warning system.

Quotes by Norman Cousins

Sports Direct should come with a government health warning - this stock is not for the fainthearted.

Quotes by Mike Ashley

I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

Quotes by Max Roach

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Action Quotes

I'm not in the business of warning people.

Quotes by John Bercow

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Quotes by Jeff Buckley

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Quotes by Jamie Zawinski

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Quotes by Felix Adler

Age Quotes

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

Quotes by Eric Alterman

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

Quotes by Diane Watson

A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.

Quotes by Clayton Kershaw

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

Quotes by Caroline Knapp

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative...

Quotes by Burt Ward

Ambiguity Quotes

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Warning quotes collection focus on?
It gathers quotes that use warning in different senses, from history as a broad early warning system to personal, self-directed rebukes and even a joking financial warning.
Why do people search for warning quotes?
People look for warning quotes to caption a cautionary post, support an argument about learning from the past, or simply share a memorable line about risk.
Is there a quote that treats history as a warning system?
Yes, the collection opens with a quote describing history as a vast early warning system, suggesting the past consistently signals what may come next.
Does any quote use warning in a self-reflective way?
Yes, one quote describes speaking to an audience as really speaking to oneself, so that any warning or rebuke given is meant for the speaker as much as anyone else.
Is there a lighter, more humorous warning quote here?
Yes, one quote jokes that a particular stock should come with a government health warning, using the phrase playfully rather than literally.

Other quotes turn warning inward, describing rebukes meant for the speaker as much as the listener, or use it playfully, like a stock warranting its own health warning. Together they show warning as a word that shifts between literal alert and figurative caution.