Quotes
Quotes about Prudence
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Only on recognising the true, may we lay down our task of searching further for truth; and only on being satisfied that we have found the holy, are we justified in submitting to its guidance. The duty of following truth at all hazards is not altered, and it is only a false wisdom and prudence which shuns the search. The one chief reason why so much more may be revealed to babes than to the wise and prudent is still simply that, with less calculation and prejudice, they entirely abandon themselves to the leading of truth.
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
