Prudence Quotes - Page 17

• Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

  James Thomas Fields

  Heaven, Desire, Battle

  James Thomas Fields (1849). “Poems”, p.16

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• The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Pride, Men, Common Sense

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• But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Selfish, Special, Trying

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• Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

  Goliarda Sapienza

  Enemy, Surprise, Caution

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• Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Errors, Common

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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• Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Want, Cures, Folly

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.101, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Casting Off, Self, Generosity

  "What A Shy Waitress Taught Me About Generosity" by Marilynne Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2013.

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• Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.82

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