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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

It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once. — Rene Descartes

A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. — Anonymous

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

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel. — Ron Chernow

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

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him. — Thomas Hobbes

Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time — Sunday Adelaja

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control. — Democritus

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

Our deepest (and fastest) yearnings can be tempered by reason and experience; our more prudent judgments softened by desire and need. — Kayt Sukel

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

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. — Sun Tzu

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

It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not. — Iggy Pop

Headlong is my natural state, not prudent patience. — Ann Aguirre

As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself. — Philip Caputo

Faith is a fine invention
When 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

I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent. — Eula Biss

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

Prudent men never trusted their luck. But Kennit had long ago decided that a man had to trust his luck in order for it to grow. — Robin Hobb

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA. — Jay Weatherill

The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision. — George Chuvalo

A fool despises his father's instruction,
But he who receives correction is prudent. — King Solomon

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

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. — Jean Racine

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

A prudent person after all can pick something
Even from an enemy. — Aristophanes

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

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

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

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men. — Voltaire

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. — Critias

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience. — Martin Luther

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

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. — Plautus

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois — Voltaire

Caution is always prudent. But we mustn't let fear pave the way of our feet." -Riyah — Jackie Castle

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. — Thales

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.' — Irene Rosenfeld

Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord — Kevin DeYoung

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.

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent. — Tony Blair

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

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. — Jean De La Fontaine

No, prudent people didn't leave their feelings hanging out; didn't leave themselves vulnerable. — J.D. Robb