Quotes about Prudence

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Therefore, blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has hidden the way of truth from the wise and prudent and revealed it unto simple laymen and little priests who choose rather to obey God than men, who in acts generically good and acts neutral have the life of Christ before their eyes and obey prelates so far as these acts, modified by circumstances, can be reasonably put into practice for edification through the imitation of Christ.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

Perhaps, if I hadn't been, once before—I mean, if I'd always been a prudent deliberate Ralston, it would have been kinder to Tina in the end." Dr. Lanskell sank his gouty bulk into the chair behind his desk, and beamed at her through ironic spectacles. "I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.

I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.