The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent. — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time… — Terry Pratchett 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
It's not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles we have to move… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our… — Steve King Copy Share Image
We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family… — John F. Kennedy 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
[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the… — Anonymous 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
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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