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Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
— Edward Gibbon
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
— Francesco Guicciardini
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
— Henry Fielding
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
— Joseph Joubert
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
— William Wordsworth
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William Ewart Gladstone
Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time
— Sunday Adelaja
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
— Thomas Carlyle
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
— Gordon Brown
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
— Thomas Hobbes
The eye of prudence may never shut.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
— George Washington
Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
— Alain De Botton
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
I quickly turned my thoughts away from my mother's overbearing prudence before I might accidentally see reason in it.
— William Ritter
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
— Publilius Syrus
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
— Jonathan Swift
O tyrant love, when held by you,We may to prudence bid adieu.
[Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.] — Jean De La Fontaine
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
— Thomas Hobbes
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
— Lech Walesa
Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Diligence acquires wealth;prudence takes care of it. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
— Josemaria Escriva
The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
He who has far to ride spares his horse.
— Jean Racine
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
— Jean Racine
When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.
— Bauvard
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
— Aldo Leopold
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
— Knut Hamsun
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
— Benjamin Franklin
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
— Samuel Johnson
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
— Warren Buffett
Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
— Luc De Clapiers
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
— John Dryden
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.
— Peter V. Brett
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In dark moments of our existence; Life teaches us prudence.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
— Herman Melville
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Surprise is the enemy of prudence.
— Goliarda Sapienza
Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.
— James Thomas Fields
It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
— John Heywood
Better is to bow than breake.
— John Heywood
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
— Mason Cooley
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.
— Samuel Johnson
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
— Samuel Johnson
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
— William Hurrell Mallock
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
— George Washington
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
— John Ortberg
He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. I thought I'd die for wanting you.
— Teresa Medeiros
Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment
— Christopher Hayes
the river from which one draws water is one way of identifying an individual
— Prudence J. Jones
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
— Edmund Burke
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
— Luc De Clapiers
It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.
— Rene Descartes
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
— Edmund Burke
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Truth itself is the best prudence.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
— Georgette Heyer
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sometimes what comes, simply comes, too fast to anticipate, or counter with prudence. The deluge just appears, on occasion, be it weather, or life.
— Ryne Douglas Pearson
Life invariably provides every individual a cause to discover prudence amidst disquiet.
— Mayank Sharma
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
— Jeremy Collier
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
— Samuel Johnson
