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Last updated on November 20, 2024.
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
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.
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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.
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.
For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.
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?
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
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.
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.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
