The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by…

Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

— Henry Fielding

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are…

— Henry Fielding

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake,…

— Henry Fielding

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

— Victor Hugo

“[Fiscal prudence] means spending wisely, reducing waste, collecting sufficient taxes to pay for the public goods and services we want, keeping budgets in relative…

— Alex Himelfarb

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the…

— Lajos Kossuth

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

— Anonymous

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

— Roger Ross Williams

Fiscal prudence is very important.

— Smriti Irani