Quotes About Prudence

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Remember Warren Buffett's ultimate laws of investing? Rule 1: don't lose money. Rule 2: see rule

Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.

Alas! — she told herself, admitting in her misery all her weakness, — alas, she had no mother. She had gloried in her independence, and this had come of it! She had scorned the prudence of Lady Macleod, and her scorn had brought her to this pass!

men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.

we cannot be prudent without being good.

Law . . . has the power that compels; and law is reason that proceeds from a sort of prudence and understanding. . . . [P]eople become hostile to an individual human being who opposes their impulses, even if he is correct in opposing them, whereas a law's prescription of what is decent is not burdensome.

Just because you can, dosen't mean you should.

Just because you can, doesnt mean you should- Ash

if you're gonna shoot off your mouth, make sure it's loaded first.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses…in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to fight oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

A moment of peril is often also a moment of kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those, which at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

OK.Now, I may be engaged, but I'm not going to get carried away.

Be warned my son, no man is free from error, but the wise and prudent man, When he has fallen into evil courses Does not persist but tries to find amendment It is the stubborn man who is the fool

Destaca-se a prudência sobremodo como a primeira condição para a felicidade. Não se deve ofender os deuses em nada. A desmedida empáfia nas palavras reverte em desmedidos golpes contra os soberbos que, já na velhice, aprendem afinal prudência.

There are only three rules in life. Traffic is real, Fire Burns and You Cannot Fly

There is a thin line of difference in being courageous and foolish!

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.