What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.
Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.
I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.