Quotes About Prudence

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

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

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

A smidgen of prevention can prevent some real headaches!

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

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

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Another iron door, on which was writ,Be not too bold.

Precaution is better than cure.

Precaution is better than a cure.

Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye.

Be not overwise in doing thy business.

A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.

Safety is as simple as ABC - Always Be Careful.