Quotes About Prudence

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.

I'm serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I'm not going to throw away any money.

The wise policymaker doesn't assume that any policy adopted in good faith will have good results. Instead, he or she weighs the likely outcome of any new policy based on facts and experience - not sentiments and dreams.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.

I have learned to spend money wisely.

My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I

There is a kind of economy in life. You don't spend more than you have, or say more than you know, or throw your weight around more than necessary.

Prudence is the foundation of all true statesmanship; in its political application, prudence is the application of principles to particular circumstances.

No "right," however natural it may seem, can exist unqualified in society. A man may have a right to self-defense; therefore, he may have a right to a sword; but if he is mad or wicked, and intends to do his neighbors harm, every dictate of prudence will tell us to disarm him. Rights have no being independent of circumstance and expediency.

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.

No lo hagas, si no conviene; no lo digas si no es verdad.

Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker.

If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, prudence, self-control, courage — than a mind satisfied that it has succeeded in enabling you to act rationally, and satisfied to accept what's beyond its control — if you find anything better than that, embrace it without reservations — it must be an extraordinary thing indeed — and enjoy it to the full.

User de ce qu'on a, et agir en tout selon ses forces, telle est la règle du sage.