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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Better is to bow than breake.
Better is to bow than breake.
Good nature without prudence, is foolishness
Good nature without prudence, is foolishness
He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of read more
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.
