[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.' — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts?" Morrigan put her arm around Birkita and squeezed. "I'm eighteen. Nothing… — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would… — Ellis Arnall Copy Share Image
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America,… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image