#prudence

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

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#consciousness #into #must #own #people

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

#country #either #freedom #freedom of speech #god

Where passion leads or prudence points the way. ↗

— Robert Lowth

#passion #points #prudence #way #where

When whisky talks it rarely counsels prudence. ↗

— Anthony McDonald

#prudence #men

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#respect

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#i #knees #prudence #talk #will

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

#conscience #first #last #matters #prudence

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#befall #entrenched #fate #man #negation