Prudence Quotes

“Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.”

“The grand secret of their numbers and their wealth, has been their principle of economical and prudent government.”

“Bravery is a virtue of the young; prudence is a virtue of the old.”

“We have to be very careful that we don't put the cart before the horse.”

“Let us not be so ill-advised, men of Athens, as to throw away the great blessings we have in our hands in our eagerness for what we have not.”

“Being asked what was the safest ship, he said, 'That which is brought into dock.'”

“Praise the sea, but keep to the land.”

“He must be prudent, calculating, flexible, and patient. He must learn how to please people in high places, how to placate the powerful and the arrogant.”

“Consider in silence whatever any one says: for it is not every speaker that is a master of his words.”

“If you are in doubt, do nothing.”

“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”

“The path of prudence is to begin to disengage.”

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

“The clever don't put all their eggs in one basket.”

“Silence is the best reply to a fool.”

“He is a fool that cannot conceal his own folly.”

“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”

“An annuity is a very good venture, when a man is in a perfect state of health.”

“A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion.”

“Let not your tongue outrun your sense.”