Quotes About Prudence

It's better to be silent than to be a fool

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

When you look the wrong way to cross the street, you've got to be careful with it.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.

To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance.

Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise

But why is Faith believed to be a goddess, and why does she herself receive temple and altar? For whoever prudently acknowledges her makes his own self an abode for her.

El placer no está nunca en la claridad y en la prudencia, siempre en la embriagadez, en la superabundancia, en la ilusión; un brote de locura corresponde siempre a toda vida verdadera.

Je ne sais pas ce qu'on fait là, à moins d'une heure du déjeuner. Manger un beignet maintenant va me couper l'appétit. – Tu veux rire ! répliqua Prudence dans un éclat de rire bref. Tu n'as même pas d'appétit à couper.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

Because it's a hot door and we have to be careful. You never open a door on a burning room.

Being too reasonable is a defect

Meriwether spent his entire day avoiding dumb bets, and he wasn't about to accept this one.