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Judicious absence is a weapon. -- Charles Reade
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Nothing like a little judicious levity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. -- Stephen Leacock
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. -- Zachary Taylor
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. -- Thorstein Veblen
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. -- Voltaire
You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. -- Grenville Kleiser
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. -- William Falconer
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. -- Emma Thompson
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious. -- Diablo Cody
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. -- William Shenstone
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. -- William Graham Sumner
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person. -- Lena Dunham
Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies. -- Andrew Weil
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. -- Adam Smith
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. -- Grantland Rice
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism. -- Voltaire
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement. -- Jen Lancaster
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. -- Stephen Leacock
... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ... -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. -- George Eliot
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. -- Saint Francis de Sales
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. -- Zachary Taylor
Be judicious with your budget and buy things that are going to last. -- Michael S. Smith
Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain. -- Choi Hong Hi
Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone. -- Mary Kay Ash
Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free. -- William Cowper
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. -- Euripides
Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas -- Gustave Le Bon
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women. -- Mark Twain
A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life. -- Lord Chesterfield
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white. -- Frederick Douglass
Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest"¦ Submit it to the criticism of the judicious. -- James Webb Young
Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others -- Eric Berne
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. -- William Shenstone
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. -- Finley Peter Dunne
(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die. -- Charles Lamb
Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts. -- Jack Newfield
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me. -- Henry Ward Beecher
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide. -- Sarah Fielding
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. -- Pierre Charron
You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit. -- Molly Ivins
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world. -- Algernon Blackwood
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. -- Samuel Johnson
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged. -- Pierre Bayle
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close. -- William Cowper
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Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system. -- Swami Vivekananda
A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests. -- Orrin Hatch
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new. -- Mark Twain
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself. -- Walter J. Phillips
the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own. -- Ellin Devis
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end. -- Terry Teachout
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines. -- H. P. Lovecraft
[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself. -- Sarah Fielding

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