Prudence Quotes

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.”

— Sophie Segur

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

— Publilius Syrus

Dine on little, and sup on less.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Better is to bow than break.

— John Heywood

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

— Amit Kalantri

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

— Victor Hugo

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

— Molly Ivins

“Prayer is a phenomenal tool for power, prudence and prosperity.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history.”

— Bertrand Russell

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

— Samuel Johnson

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

— Confucius

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

— John Dryden

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander…

— John Calvin

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

— Warren Buffett

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

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way…

— John Ortberg

“The dignity of folly And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;…

— Marcus Aurelius

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

— Mason Cooley

When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do…

— George Chuvalo

If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and…

— Thomas Malthus

The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way…

— Anonymous

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is…

— William Hazlitt

“My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By…

— T.S. Eliot

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in…

— Anonymous

“Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First…

— Justin Cronin

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the…

— James Madison

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;…

— Samuel Johnson

“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,…

— John Shelton Jones

Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger…

— Francis of Assisi

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously…

— Aristotle

“There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose. … It produces a well-regulated mind; it gives…

— Jake Desyllas

The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to…

— Herman Melville