Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from… — Origen Copy Share Image
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“My heart kind of hurt when I looked at her. Not because I was in love, but because I could tell from… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to… — Alexander Hamilton 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
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
