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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
— Norm MacDonald
When the storm comes,the short-sighted get soaked,
the intelligent run for cover,
and the prudent pull out their umbrellas. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access.
— T.D. Jakes
Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.
— John Andreas Widtsoe
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
— Jules Verne
Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time
— Sunday Adelaja
It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single "David" standing with God, than a million "Goliath's" standing without Him.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
— Aneurin Bevan
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
— Albert Pike
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
— Jonathan Swift
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
— Charles Churchill
It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?
— Florence Nightingale
But a prudent wife is from the LORD.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
— Atul Gawande
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
— Allan H. Meltzer
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
— William Shenstone
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wise man is seldom prudent.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.
— Neil Kennedy
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.
— Elinor Glyn
Headlong is my natural state, not prudent patience.
— Ann Aguirre
Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency. — Emily Dickinson
Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances,
— James K. Morrow
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
— Joseph Addison
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
— John Maynard Keynes
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan — Alexandre Dumas
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
— Benjamin Graham
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
— Euripides
I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.
— Jay Weatherill
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
— Michel De Montaigne
Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
— William Shenstone
When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.
— Jeff Greenfield
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
— Sophocles
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
— G.K. Chesterton
Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living.
— Marjorie Bowen
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
— Pope John XXIII
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
— Samuel Johnson
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
— Anatole France
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
— Samuel Richardson
Wisdom is prudent strength.
— Atul Gawande
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
— Francis Of Assisi
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.
— Carrie Brownstein
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
— Fran Lebowitz
Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.
— Aron Nimzowitsch
Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.
— Jeanne Phillips
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.
— James Russell Lowell
... a prudent archer has always a second bowstring
— Henry James
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Caution is always prudent. But we mustn't let fear pave the way of our feet." -Riyah
— Jackie Castle
I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'
— Irene Rosenfeld
Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.
— Sunday Adelaja
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
— Carlos Ghosn
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A prudent consideration for Number One.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
— Lupita Nyong'o
A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Expertise in any given single area is not enough to guarantee either prudent policies or the avoidance of blunders.
— Zachary Shore
Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
— Hannah Arendt
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
— Rene Descartes
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
— Aristotle.
Depend upon it, her mother's voice said sternly in her memory, no prudent man will ever accept a wife who knows more than himself.
— Eloisa James
