I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or… — J. I. Packer 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
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous,… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle 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
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided… — George Chapman Copy Share Image