I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. Molly Ivins
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. Samuel Johnson
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. Thomas Hobbes
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. Mason Cooley
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. Edmund Burke
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. William Blake
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all. Edmund Burke
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. ‘Thou shalt not’ is their characteristic formula. Samuel Taylor Coleridge