#prude

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#antagonistic #discernment #foolishness #insecure #insecurity

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man... ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#ethereal #matrimony #men #nerves #prude

Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#prude #religion #sexuality #men

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is...God help him. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#prudence #cowardice

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#always #donations #expect #keep #most

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

— Aesop

#before #common #easier #entrance #exit

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #god #grace

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? ↗

— Archilochus

#another #better #could #cunning #flight

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#although #been #determined #either #folly

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#continue #develop #executioner #may #our