Quotes About Prudence

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

Johnny did not bother to do a background check on Damien.

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).

So you only want to go all in if you're guaranteed a win ? Well . . . yeah. Is that wrong? It's not wrong, honey. It's just stupid.

As Petrus Alphonsus says, 'If you have the ability to do a thing of which you must later repent, "Nay" is better than "Yea.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

No one lends his entire fortune, not even to his best friend

A small return and a safe one is far more desirable than risk

It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

He fled to his usual refuge, that of hoping for some unforeseen turn of fortune, some favorable chance which would save him from unpleasant consequences — perhaps even justify his insincerity by manifesting its prudence.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.