In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously. "Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Not to be inedible here, but he is a prince and you are staying in his castle. I wouldn't piss him off.”… — Seraphina Donavan Copy Share Image
I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
These symbolize (Proverbs 30:14) the greedy and usurers whose teeth are swords and knifes which they use to devour the poor and… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness;… — Wu Ta-ch'i Copy Share Image
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the… — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.png)
