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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction. -- Norm MacDonald
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. -- Voltaire
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children. -- Steven Rattner
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. -- Giacomo Casanova
If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment. -- Eric Maskin
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy. -- James E. Faust
Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend. -- Mason Cooley
Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth. -- Confucius
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them. -- Lord Chesterfield
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? -- John Tillotson
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed. -- Jose Saramago
I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!! -- Alcatraz Dey
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then. -- Allen W. Wood

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