Prudent

Famous quotes containing the word prudent:

“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)

“Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men,
conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

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