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
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes 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
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand circumstances in which a man may be justified in a particular course of action, and that course yet… — James Malcolm Rymer Copy Share Image
“It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Not to be inedible here, but he is a prince and you are staying in his castle. I wouldn't piss him off.”… — Seraphina Donavan Copy Share Image
I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. — Marcus Aurelius 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
“Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you… — Henry V. O'Neil Copy Share Image
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into the parking… — M.L. Brennan Copy Share Image
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
