#Prudence Quotes

“You must not thinkThat we are made of stuff so fat and dullThat we can let our beard be shook with dangerAnd think it pastime.”

“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”

“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”

“When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.”

“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”

“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.”

“Lend less than you owe.”

“Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.”

“BewareOf entrance to a quarrel.”

“Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.”

“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”

“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

“Put money in thy purse.”

“The eye of prudence may never shut.”

“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.”

“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?”

“He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.”

“When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.”

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

“For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.”

“I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.”

“And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.”

“I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”

“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.”

“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”

“Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.”

“Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”

“It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.”

“Never test the depth of river with both the feet.”

“The only prudence in life is concentration.”

“The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.”

“Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.”

“Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.”

“Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need.”

“Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.”

“A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.”

“A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.”

“While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.”

“Delay is preferable to error.”

“The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.”

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

“Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.”

“A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.”

“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.”

“Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.”

“Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.”

“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”