"Think twice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... couple the silver pheasant with the Eagles of France?—a pretty idea, truly! So she is your sister, is she? Milady? Well, then, tell her from me to think twice before she outrages a soldier with 'patronage'; and tell her, too, that had I been he I would have ground my ivory toys into powder before I would have let them become the playthings of a grande dame who tendered me gold ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... else. If ever you see a man with my complaint fall overboard again, think twice before ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... these savages to the suburbs of New York. The French have now learnt that they are not invincible, and that if war may mean victory, it may also mean defeat, invasion, and ruin. When, therefore, they have paid the bill for their a Berlin folly, they will think twice before they open a fresh ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... "For God's sake think twice, Ford, afore you do this. There's a lot more to me than you know—a lot I've thought to overcome—suffering, misery, curses, disgrace. But if you take me to the 'cooler' to-night—hear me on my oath: you'll be sorry as long as you live, ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts
... mother of invention," or, "Who follows the river will arrive at the sea." Maxims, in distinction, are results of reflection. They are experience generalized into rules for the guidance of action, as, "Think twice before you speak once," or, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs are statical; maxims are dynamic. Those are wisdom embalmed; these wisdom vitalized. The former are literary fodder; ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various
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