Quotes About Prudence

A man who is not admired by his mother-in-law is prudent.

Beware of a man who speaks in favour or admiration of women.

The prudent people are to able measure a person's level of selfishness by the amount of time s/he spends enjoying looking to oneself in the mirror.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

I'm not a gambler.

I haven't gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don't know.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Take care not to spit against the wind!

For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Look twice before you leap.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?