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We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. (Quote by - Randolph Bourne)

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. (Quote by - Bible)

Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. (Quote by - Bible)

Yee have many strings to your bowe. (Quote by - John Heywood)

Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' his bow, And burns for love and money too. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. (Quote by - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

Dine on little, and sup on less. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)

Look before you ere you leap. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. (Quote by - Euripides)

Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety. (Quote by - Viscount Cecil)

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)

One can't get diseases of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig by eating tomatoes or almonds or figs. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)

He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day. (Quote by - Old English Rhyme)

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