Prudence Quotes
237 quotes by 170 authors
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He who has far to ride spares his horse.
— Jean Racine
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
— Marvin Olasky
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I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,…
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
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All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
— Roger Williams
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It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them:…
— John Flavel
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate…
— Warren G. Harding
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Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room.
— Wes Smith
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
— Francois Fenelon
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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
— Samuel Johnson
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The first years of man must make provision for the last.
— Samuel Johnson
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
— Henry Fielding
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Better is to bow than breake.
— John Heywood
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It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
— John Heywood
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In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
— Maria Edgeworth
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