Better is to bow than breake.

Better is to bow than break.

— John Heywood

“Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Graff-' 'Not Graff,' the big man snapped, looking annoyed. 'The name is Garff-Garff!' 'Say, that's good,' the hunter said.…

— Joe Millard

“It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it.”

— Sharon Shinn

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for…

— Richard Hooker

It is good the have a hatch before the durre.

— John Heywood

“[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