A Quote by Mason Cooley

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.

Norm MacDonald

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Voltaire

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

Lord Chesterfield

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

Confucius

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

Masha Gessen

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Jerome K. Jerome

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

Zachary Taylor

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Jose Saramago

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.

Benjamin Franklin

The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

Zygmunt Bauman

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

John Tillotson

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.