PRUDENCE AND IMPRUDENCE

Related Subjects: Advice, Care, Caution, Choice, Counsel, Danger, Economy, Preparedness, Watchfulness, Wisdom

1. As the ancients
   Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,
   And look before you ere you leap;
   For as ye sow, ye are like to reap.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

2. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket." It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.—ANDREW CARNEGIE, Empire of Business
   

3. 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

4. Courage is a virtue only in proportion as it is directed by prudence.—FENELON, Telemachus
   

5. With more than a propitious gale,
   Take half thy canvas in.—HORACE
   

6. Chance generally favors the prudent.—JOUBERT, Pensees
   

7. Have a care where there is more sail than ballast.—WILLIAM PENN, Fruits of Solitude
   

8. Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.—PLAUTUS, Truculentus
   

9. The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.—Proverb
   

10. Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity.—Proverb
    

11. Prudent pauses forward business.—Proverb
    

12. Don't buy a pig in a poke.—Proverb
    

13. A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft.—Proverb
    

14. It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

15. It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.—TERENCE, Eunuchus