Money Quote by William Blake

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Samuel Johnson

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of…

— Edmund Burke

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

— Jeremy Collier

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

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage;…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— John Milton

“Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this to Prudence…

— Barbara Pym

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Mason Cooley

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

— Thomas Hobbes