O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I used to pick wildflowers to bring cheer indoors. Prudence would turn right around and throw them out. Said, “If God wanted… — Leah Weiss Copy Share Image
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Prudence thanked him, experiencing that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Large houses are still occupied, while spinners’ and weavers’ cottages stand empty, because the families that once filled them are obliged to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“As for the little banshees, when they returned home they, too, were satisfied. “I wouldn’t mind marrying him,” said the eldest, Hope.… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . . — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
