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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. -- Robert Burns
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. -- Charles Churchill
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. -- Euripides
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. -- Euripides
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. -- Jean de La Fontaine
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. -- Sun Tzu
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. -- Anatole France
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. -- William Shenstone
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. -- Thucydides
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. -- Vincent Van Gogh
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. -- Edmund Burke
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. -- Elinor Glyn
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. -- Pearl S. Buck
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. -- Rene Descartes
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. -- Pope John XXIII
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? -- James Madison
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. -- Ambrose Bierce
While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction. -- Steven Chu
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. -- John F. Kennedy
It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience. -- Martin Luther
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. -- Samuel Johnson
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. -- Joseph Addison
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. -- Sophocles
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. -- Andrew Cuomo
The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today. -- William Henry Harrison
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course. -- Susan Hill
A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all. -- Lord Chesterfield
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. -- Jean Racine
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. -- Rene Descartes
I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.' -- Irene Rosenfeld
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. -- Jules Verne
Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients' lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner. -- Todd Young
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. -- Jose Marti
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? -- Archilochus
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? -- William H. Seward
We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. -- Dilma Rousseff
And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. -- Timothy Geithner
Chance generally favors the prudent. -- Joseph Joubert
A prudent consideration for Number One. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I think I'm a prudent filmmaker. -- Werner Herzog
The wise man is seldom prudent. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A prudent man should neglect no circumstances. -- Sophocles
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. -- Periander
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. -- Critias
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet. -- Aristotle
No better relation than a prudent and faithful Friend -- Benjamin Franklin
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend. -- Benjamin Franklin
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at. -- Samuel Richardson
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. -- Plautus
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. -- Thales
Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly. -- Thomas a Kempis
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois -- Voltaire
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. -- Jean Racine
Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children. -- Samuel Richardson
Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment. -- John Elkington
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. -- Erwin Schrodinger
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get. -- Pierre Corneille
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. -- Sophocles
Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control. -- Democritus
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men. -- Voltaire
The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision. -- George Chuvalo
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects. -- Carrie Brownstein
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. -- Carlos Ghosn
A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. -- Joseph Collins
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just. -- Michel de Montaigne
"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart. -- Alexander Pope
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord -- Kevin DeYoung
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. -- Socrates
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. -- Andre Gide
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably. -- Thomas Campion
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. -- Emily Dickinson
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. -- William Shenstone
Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. -- Allan H. Meltzer
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. -- Blaise Pascal
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. -- Samuel Richardson
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices. -- Albert Pike
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. -- Norm MacDonald
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it. -- George Sand
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done. -- Werner Herzog
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides. -- G.K. Chesterton
It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not. -- Iggy Pop
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. -- Ambrose Bierce
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. -- Baltasar Gracian
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan -- Alexandre Dumas
In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed. -- Benjamin Graham
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent. -- Eula Biss
Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient -- Seth Klarman
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature. -- Fran Lebowitz
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. -- Atul Gawande
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny. -- Friedrich Schiller
Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active. -- Vivek Shraya
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. -- John Maynard Keynes
Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact. -- Jeanne Phillips
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets -- Aneurin Bevan
I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA. -- Jay Weatherill
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. -- Saadi

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