Quotes About Prudence

Si bien en el presente el pasado ya ha sucedido, es preciso extremar la prudencia para no poner en peligro lo presente a través de lo pasado al hacerlo presente>>

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

I believe you said earlier, Miss James, that an ounce of prevention– (Morgan) Is worth an army of pistols. (Serenity)

All right, Kit. But you have to be careful. (Billy) I'll be careful. Just you watch. I'll be as careful as…as…as something that's really careful, that's what. (Kit)

When a conservative once decides, as many articulate conservatives seem to have decided in explosive America, that the best of all possible worlds was here yesterday and is gone today, he begins the fateful move toward reaction and ratiocination that turns him from a prudent traditionalist into an angry ideologue.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

Out of the whole multitude of prudent men in the world, the great majority are so from timidity.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

hard work never killed anyone... but why take a chance?

Having to explain it means you probably shouldn't have said it.

Spend not on hopes.

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 T. S. Eliot 'The Waste Land

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

Best stop swallowing, you're like to choke on it.

My mother taught me long ago that only madmen fight wars they cannot win.

All the beatings she had suffered had not subjugated her, only taught her prudence and a calm and sly scorn for men's anger.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.