Quotes About Prudence

"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

he might have one bite left.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Common sense had already told her that she must not do so. But common sense sometimes seemed a dreary taskmaster.

She did not wish the girl to be beguiled by such a practiced and heartless charmer.

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

caution dressed up as wisdom.

My stenographer would say, 'Fairly warned is fair afeared.

The trick was to assume the worst and act accordingly.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. It is destiny which makes them prudent.

She decided not to ready her gun until she saw who was there.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn't be prudent. "You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you dig?" he said. "So, you know, you try to take care of them, but you know, you also have to show them you the boss. You always have to get yours first, or else you really ain't no leader. If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and shit.

That is a lethal combination—cocky plus wrong—especially when a more prudent option exists: simply admit that the future is far less knowable than you think.

The decline of violence may owe something to an expansion of empathy, but it also owes much to harder-boiled faculties like prudence, reason, fairness, self-control, norms and taboos, and conceptions of human rights. This

No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.