Quotes of Prudence - somelinesforyou

“ Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. ”

- Cher

“ Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee ”

- Epictetus

“ Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ”

- George Orwell

“ It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them ”

- Mark Twain

“ Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. ”

- Tacitus

“ Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. ”

- Clara Barton

“ Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. ”

- John Ray

“ Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector. ”

- Henry Hazlitt

“ Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. ”

- Aesop

“ I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. ”

- Molly Ivins

“ It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. ”

- John Milton

“ Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident, it is to have a soulmate for life. ”

- Victoria Secunda

“ Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. ”

- Bill Bryson

“ Providence is always on the side of the last reserve. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all. ”

- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“ The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries. ”

- Romano Prodi
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9