Imprudent Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
— Zygmunt Bauman
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure…
— Giacomo Casanova
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and…
— Pope Pius XII
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It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear…
— James M. Lindsay
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Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state;…
— Victor Cousin
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Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.
— Steven Rattner
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale…
— Winston Churchill
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever…
— Jane Austen
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Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.
— Confucius
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There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves…
— Max Stirner
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He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like…
— Brother Lawrence
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Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we…
— James E. Faust
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
— Voltaire
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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very…
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Imprudent Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Imprudent Quotes as follows: