Quotes About Prudence

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

If you choose to do something that you know you cannot do, or that is going to be very difficult, then you are a fool!

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées »

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

Pero Jordan estaba a mi lado y, al contrario que Daisy, era demasiado prudente como para arrastrar, de época en época, sueños olvidados.

What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.

Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta

Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles. — Gowachin admonition

La prudenza è la via della mediocrità. La mediocrità priva di passioni è tutto ciò che tanta gente crede di poter raggiungere.

Ove Malkyjeve rije?i, kao i mnoge druge stvari koje mi je izravno pisao, navode na zaklju?ak da je gospodar Leto uvijek u potrazi za novinom i izvornoš?u, ali je i oprezan zbog razorne mo?i skrivene u takvim stvarima.

Don't be too optimistic, the light at the end of the tunnel might be a train.

Precisamente, la cautela exige tener una posibilidad inmediata de huida; precisamente, la cautela exige, como por desgracia ocurre muchas veces, arriesgar la vida.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

Trust in God but tie your camel.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861

Aimer est une aventure sans carte et sans compas où seule la prudence égare.

Dia prova di prudenza, è sempre una buona scusa. Oppure parta con me domani. Non faccia la sciocchezza di perdersi qualcosa per eccesso di esperienza. Parta con me, dia una possibilità all'impossibile. Non ha idea di quanto l'impossibile non ne possa più, e a che punto abbia bisogno di noi.

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. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel.