Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent. — William Klein Copy Share Image
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision. — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Plan for today, and you are prudent. Plan for tomorrow, and you are intelligent. Plan for today and tomorrow, and you are… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I… — Brad Rutter Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth?… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison 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
“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
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“All that comes above the surface [of the globe] lies within the province of Geography; all that comes below that surface lies… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image