prudence quotes

• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. (Henry Fielding) [prudence]
• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. (William Blake) [prudence/ugly]
• The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. (Edmund Burke) [prudence/virtue/willpower]
• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. (Marcus Cicero) [youth/prudence/age]
• There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. (Charles Caleb Colton) [more/prudence]
• It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. (John Dryden) [fortune/prudence]
• The only prudence in life is concentration. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [prudence/life/concentration]
• Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [prudence]
• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. (Henry Fielding) [prudence]
• I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. (Molly Ivins) [prudence]
• It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. (Samuel Johnson) [prudence/people]
• 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/life/loss/advantage]
• Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Samuel Johnson) [prudence/attitude/life]
• Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. (John Milton) [prudence/virtue/time]
• Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. (George Bernard Shaw) [virtue/prudence]
• 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) [people/prudence]
• 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) [courage/prudence/willpower/waste]

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