Quotes About Prudence

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

If the moral senses can conflict with one another and with what prudent action requires under particular circumstances, then living a good life requires striking a delicate balance among those senses and between them and prudent self-interest.

As Roosevelt figured out details of his radical plan, he pressed ahead on two less extreme fronts. "It is never well to take drastic action," he liked to say, "if the result can be achieved with equal efficiency in less drastic fashion.

It is not advisable to crow. It might be oneself next time.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

Great mistake to say too much. Remember that. Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.

The wise man does not commit himself. Is not that so?

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

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

I have never had personal debt and never will.

I am one of those cats who doesn't believe in putting everything from your personal life out. I come from the motto 'if they know less it's better.'

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash.

Whilst I'll take any risk that I must, I'll take none that I needn't.

Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

Do not entertain the fool unless you want the joke to be on you..