prudence Quotes

“For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

“From its earliest days, NASA had followed a policy of maximum, though prudent, disclosure. We had to do everything openly—and soon under intensive, live TV coverage.”

“The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst.”

Prison had made Edmond prudent, and he was desirous of running no risk whatever.

“Now what is vague is doubtful; and it was a wise man who said, ‘when in doubt, keep out.‘”

For the present, under the circumstances, we deemed it prudent to make rather light of the matter to Trabb’s boy; who, I am convinced, would have been much affected by disappointment, if he had known that his intervention saved me from the limekiln. Not that Trabb’s boy was of a malignant nature, but that he had too much spare vivacity, and that it was in his constitution to want variety and excitement at anybody’s expense.