Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock 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
I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture… — Aesop Copy Share Image
“Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously. "Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, - how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
“Patience is as important as prelude & love-play for a woman and prudence is as important as sexual union for a man.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!” — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The civilized man is distinguished from the savage mainly by prudence, or, to use a slightly wider term, forethought.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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
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
“All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, ‘No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take,… — Austin O'Malley 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
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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