#prudence

Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#patriarchy #prudence #humor

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

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

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

— William Blake

#incapacity #maid #old #old maid #prudence

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

— Henry Fielding

#defeated #heads #hearts #often #prudence

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#imprudent #more #nothing #prudence #than

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#jurisprudence #slate #equality

His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#respect

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#bestows #equal #equally #experience #men

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

#give #guide #hear #heart #heed