#prudence

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else. ↗

— James Brady

#beautiful #beautiful people #clear #else #had

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

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

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#every #i #i believe #i believe in #least

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

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#giver #good #harm #humility #more

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#consequences #courage #essential #forethought #god

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