"The moderate are not usually the most sincere,……" — Walter Savage Landor

More Circumspection Quotes

This quote is filed under Circumspection Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.… — Sun Tzu
• Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for… — Samuel Adams
• The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. — Samuel Adams
• By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the… — Benjamin Franklin
• It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in… — Colin Maclaurin
• Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom. — Edmund Burke
• By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. — Benjamin Franklin
• In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides… — James Madison
• There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust. — James Madison
• I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
• A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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