Beware the ides of March.
William ShakespeareTags: forcasting foreshadowing julius-ceasar warning
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: inspirational warning
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.
Winston S. ChurchillDon't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to — er — 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.
J.K. RowlingPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE
Tags: reading warning authors preface
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John DrydenEnter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn,
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
Tags: warning stealing thieves gringotts
This is eternity, Antanasia," he said, both warning and imploring. "Eternity.
Beth FantaskeyTags: eternity warning forever
It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
Neal StephensonTags: warning expectation
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Tags: warning poet irony ozymandias hubris egypt epic mighty
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