Prudent

Famous quotes containing the word prudent:

“Humanity cries out against this vast enormity:Mnot one man knows a prudent remedy. Blame not, then, the North; and wisely judge the South.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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

“The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)