Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Look Before You Leap

Consider well before you act. “Melius est cavere semper, quam patiri semel.”

And look before you ere you leap,
For, as you sow, you're like to reap.

Butler: Hudibras, canto ii. part ii. 502.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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