“ There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
- 1.3K
“ It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.'. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3K
“ In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 557
“ All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods. ”
- Victor Cousin- Copy
- 276
“ When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 121
“ So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master — so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil — so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. ”
- Samuel Foote- Copy
- 374
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