Prudent may refer to:
- Prudent (name)
Ships:
- HMS Prudent, a Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line
- USS Prudent (PG-96), a US Navy gunboat
- French ship Prudent, a French third-rate ship of the line burned at the Siege of Louisbourg (1758) by the British
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Famous quotes containing the word prudent:
“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)
“While yet it is cold January, and snow and ice are thick and solid, the prudent landlord comes from the village to get ice to cool his summer drink; impressively, even pathetically, wise, to foresee the heat and thirst of July now in January,—wearing a thick coat and mittens! when so many things are not provided for. It may be that he lays up no treasures in this world which will cool his summer drink in the next.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)