Quotes About Prudence

The women urged him to be calm, patient, and prudent. "Tomorrow," Lucia said, "Padre Cristoforo will surely come, and you'll see for yourself that he'll find the kind of solution that we common folk cannot even imagine.

Il buon senso c'era, ma se ne stava nascosto per paura del senso comune.

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

No place so scared from such frops is barred Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard Na fly to alter there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

If there is wasteful spending, I will not support it.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

If something is too risque, don't watch it.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?