Prudent Quotes · Page 5

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

— Iggy Pop

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

— Ambrose Bierce

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man…

— Plato

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

— Jean Racine

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

— Werner Herzog

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

— Anonymous

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In…

— Ambrose Bierce

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

— Alexandre Dumas

Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients' lives, and to do so in a fiscally…

— Todd Young

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

— Aneurin Bevan

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another…

— Noah Feldman

When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice…

— Jeff Greenfield

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

— Andrew Cuomo

All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for…

— Anonymous

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent…

— Tim Allen

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if…

— Aulus Cornelius Celsus

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and…

— Susan Hill

To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li… The Chinese revolution is great,…

— Mao Zedong

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…

— Thomas Paine

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

— Carrie Brownstein

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

— William Shenstone

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

— Sophocles

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

— Pierre Corneille

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

— Anatole France

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

— Democritus

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

— Samuel Richardson

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

— Samuel Richardson

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

— Jules Verne

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can…

— Archilochus

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand…

— Jim Evans

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional…

— Carl Rogers

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within…

— Hesiod

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish,…

— Lupita Nyong'o

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

— Edmund Burke