Prudent

Famous quotes containing the word prudent:

“House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:14.

“All government—indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)