Quotes About Prudence

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia lógica para no arruinar el presente, y optimismo desafiante para encarar el futuro.

El tío Ramón me dio los más útiles instrumentos para la vida, como descubrí en terapia a una edad madura: memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia lógica para no arruinar el presente, y optimismo desafiante para encarar el futuro.

nadie se hace rico en un empleo ni invirtiendo con prudencia; el futuro es de los audaces.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Little boats should keep near shore.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

No man in his senses will dance.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

The better part of valour is discretion.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The cautious seldom err.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.