Quotes and Sayings About Prudence
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
-- Adam Smith -
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
-- Aristotle -
If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
-- Fay Weldon -
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
-- John Milton -
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
-- Lech Walesa -
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
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 -
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
-- Robert Lowth -
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 -
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
-- Walter Savage Landor
