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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. -- William Blake
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. -- Samuel Johnson
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. -- John Milton
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. -- Samuel Johnson
Prudence approaches, conscience accuses. -- Immanuel Kant
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses. -- Immanuel Kant
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire. -- James Thomas Fields
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk. -- Mason Cooley
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. -- Seneca the Younger
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers. -- Mason Cooley
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress. -- Tehyi Hsieh
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. -- Seneca the Younger
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. -- Thomas Hobbes
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds. -- Darynda Jones
Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends. -- Margaret of Valois
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time. -- Fay Weldon
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. -- William Fleming
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. -- Edmund Burke
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. -- Jeremy Collier
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. -- Samuel Johnson
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. -- William E. Gladstone
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble. -- Mason Cooley
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear. -- Aldo Leopold
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -- Omar N. Bradley
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. -- John Ortberg
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. -- Thomas Hobbes
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. -- Thomas Hobbes
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win. -- Peter V. Brett
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods. -- William Wordsworth
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all. -- Edmund Burke
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush. -- John Ortberg
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. -- John Ortberg
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. -- William Whewell
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 of them. -- Mark Twain
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi. -- George Carlin
But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules. -- Thomas Hobbes
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end. -- Aristotle
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general. -- John Ortberg
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean. -- Branch Rickey
Better is to bow than breake. -- John Heywood
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. -- Euripides
The first years of man must make provision for the last. -- Samuel Johnson
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. -- Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. -- Henry Fielding
Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. -- Alain de Botton
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. -- Ovid
Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed. -- George Washington
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. -- Mary Cholmondeley
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence. -- Lech Walesa
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. -- Robert Hall
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' -- Francis Quarles
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. -- Democritus
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. -- John Dryden
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. -- Aesop
Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option. -- Warren Bennis
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. -- Robert Peel
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. -- Samuel Johnson
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. -- Robert E. Lee
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. -- Clara Barton
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else. -- James Brady
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated. -- Jose Rizal
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. -- Bryant H. McGill
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. -- Akhenaton
As love increases, prudence diminishes. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Surprise is the enemy of prudence. -- Goliarda Sapienza
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. -- Baltasar Gracian
The only prudence in life is concentration. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Caution is the lower story of prudence. -- Thomas Carlyle
No god is absent where prudence dwells. -- Juvenal
The eye of prudence may never shut. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where passion leads or prudence points the way. -- Robert Lowth
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched. -- Ovid
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles. -- Edmund Burke
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail. -- Publilius Syrus
There must be in prudence also some master virtue. -- Aristotle
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence. -- Elinor Glyn
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. -- Luc de Clapiers
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune. -- Benjamin Franklin
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence. -- Victor Hugo
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue. -- Oliver Goldsmith
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness. -- Baltasar Gracian
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral. -- Joseph Joubert
Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development. -- Ha-Joon Chang
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment -- Christopher Hayes
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. -- Samuel Johnson
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . . -- Vincent de Paul
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence. -- Juvenal
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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