Quotes About Prudence

I'm pretty conservative on a lot of things. I don't want to get hurt.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

Wits enough to be curious, not smart enough to be cautious.

Stay inside, please, and try not to break anything." "How can you call yourself an inventor if you dislike breaking things?

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

There is a time for everything; and all people, but more especially women, should be constantly careful to watch circumstances, and not to air their accomplishments at a time when nobody cares for them. They should practise a sparing economy in displaying their learning and eloquence, and should even, if circumstances require, plead ignorance on subjects with which they are familiar.

The mouse is safest when she doesn't leave footprints in the butter.

Spend one and save one; you remember the wise man's rule

Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

Beware of advice—even this.

It was fun playing with fire, but she wasn't a girl who liked to get burned.

We're not going to borrow trouble until we know there's trouble to be had

Heads are useful ... And should be kept.

Cos as me dad always said, fast women and slow horses get you nowhere.

Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the enemy plan of the day might be.

But the last few years had taught me that one of my grandmother's favorite sayings was true. An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure.

Don't mess with Sergio Marchionne.

I have done good work in television and wouldn't want to mess it with a wrong move.

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.

Republicans throughout the twentieth century have been advocates of prudence and restraint in the conduct of foreign affairs.

For as Prometheus, (which interpreted, is, The Prudent Man,) was bound to the hill Caucasus, a place of large prospect, where, an Eagle feeding on his liver, devoured in the day, as much as was repaired in the night: So that man, which looks too far before him, in the care of future time, hath his heart all the day long, gnawed on by Fear of death, poverty, or other calamity; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep.

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