Cautious Quote by Jeaniene Frost

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

— Samuel Johnson

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

— Mason Cooley

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

— Elisabeth Marbury

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

— Mason Cooley

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

— Thomas Hobbes

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

— James Jones

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

— John Milton

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

— Mason Cooley

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

— Denis Hayes

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are…

— Henry Fielding

There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.

— Jamie Hyneman