Prudence famous quotes

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
-- Adam Smith

#Kingdoms #Economic #Prudence

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Footprint #Prudence

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
-- Aristotle

#Virtue #Masters #Prudence

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#Art #Terrible #Prudence

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
-- Fay Weldon

#Desire #Prudence

Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#May #Affair #Prudence

He who has far to ride spares his horse.
-- Jean Racine

#Horse #Prudence

Better is to bow than breake.
-- John Heywood

#Bows #Prudence

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

#Virtue #Circumstances #Prudence

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Littles #Moral #Prudence

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
-- Lech Walesa

#Knees #Prudence

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Prudence

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Silent #Prudence #Folly

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Action #Prudence

Dine on little, and sup on less.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Littles #Dine #Prudence

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Buckets #Rope #Prudence

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
-- Ovid

#Firsts #Prudence

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.
-- Pierre Bayle

#Deceiving #Citations #Prudence

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Destiny #Blunders #Prudence

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Prudence

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
-- Robert Lowth

#Passion #Way #Prudence

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Projects #Prudence #Private Life

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
-- Walter Savage Landor

#Giving #Sincere #Prudence