Quotes About Prudence

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. AFRICAN PROVERB

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

As he said, being careful had helped him stay alive all these years and he was looking forward to maintaining that record.

Then go faster. But don't go stupid.

Be valiant, but not too venturous. Let thy attire be comely, but not costly.

As a general rule, if you're holding down a job it's best to lie low and keep your mouth shut.

If you can't be good, be careful.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

As my English teacher used to tell me, if you can't think of the right thing to say, say nothing at all.

No, my advocates, my angels with sadist eyes, this is the beginning of my life, or the end. So I lean affirmation across the cafe table, and surrender my fifty years away with an easy smile. But the surety of my love is not dismayed by any eventuality which prudence or pity can conjure up, and in the end all that we can do is to sit at the table over which our hands cross, listening to tunes from the wurlitzer, with love huge and simple between us, and nothing more to be said.

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to lose. At my age and in my profession, prudence is more than just a virtue, it's an instinct.

Una precaución de más es una sorpresa de menos.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

If you feel the need to be stupid, do so elsewhere.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

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Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.

So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves in thinking the greatest means to be best, when it should be the fittest.

There is a difference between being bold and being rash.

I don't think any extremism is rational.