Quotes About Prudence

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

I'd relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn't a guarantee for happiness.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

Everyone honors the wise.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

Beware of advice—even this.

Don't trust too much to all people around you. Don't be fool by their kindness that are showed to you.

I won't say anything that I will regret tomorrow

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Therefore, blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has hidden the way of truth from the wise and prudent and revealed it unto simple laymen and little priests who choose rather to obey God than men, who in acts generically good and acts neutral have the life of Christ before their eyes and obey prelates so far as these acts, modified by circumstances, can be reasonably put into practice for edification through the imitation of Christ.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Sometimes playing it safe can be just as bad as taking risks.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.