Quotes About Prudence

What Milken was saying was that the entire American credit-rating system was flawed. It focused on the past when it should have focused on the future, and it was burdened by a phony sense of prudence.

Success is about smart risk management, not about wild risk taking.

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.

I didn't feel the need to examine every stranger that approached.

when you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.

The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance.

Paranoia might be annoying, but a healthy dose of it served to keep you alive. No one ever got killed by being too vigilant.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract ...

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. by this, and only this, we have existed.

My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor In our empty rooms

One must be so careful these days.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

However, in modern civilization everything tends to suffocate the heroic sense of life. Everything is more or less mechanized, spiritually impoverished, and reduced to a prudent and regulated association of beings who are needy and have lost their self-suffiency. The contact between man's deep and free powers and the powers of things and of nature has been cut off; metropolitan life petrifies everything, syncopates every breath, and contaminates every spiritual "well.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

Moral: don't play with savage things that are stronger than you are.

Don't do anything stupid.", FADE by Kailin Gow