Prudent Quotes
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We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.
Ellis Arnall
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He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
Thomas Hobbes
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Margaret Thatcher was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.
Hilary Mantel
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A prudent consideration for Number One.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
Blaise Pascal
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Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
Critias
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O sacred solitude! divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! envy of the great, By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.
Edward Joseph Young
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I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.
Carrie Brownstein