Prudence Quotes

He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.

Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]

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.

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

He who has far to ride spares his horse.

I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

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.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.