Good nature without prudence, is foolishness
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HORACE There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.
AMIT KALANTRI A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Only those, who work hard can think of achieving something. Sitting idle or hoping for results witho...
SAM VEDA Without prudence, honesty could be like a clamorous hen,
tactless and proud, dashing aimlessly towar...
JOHN B. BEJO It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
ETHAN ZOHN If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our...
OMAR BRADLEY If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our...
OMAR N. BRADLEY No one became wise without almost drowning in the waters of foolishness and then grabbing the rope o...
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK I think the garage is foolishness.
BOB GREENE The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS But prudence can also be understood as the difference between good and bad. I know the road we've ta...
ALEJANDRO TOLEDO Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficien...
MARVIN OLASKY Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES Patient's sureness is equal to Doctor's foolishness
OSMAN WARSI Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily ...
JOSEMARíA ESCRIVá The only prudence in life is concentration.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to b...
JANE SMILEY Faith is foolishness,but with a positive goal.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness
GOLDA MEIR Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to u...
MILAN KUNDERA Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is t...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is th...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology with...
OMAR BRADLEY Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology with...
GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
SENECA Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without consider...
JANE SMILEY Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guid...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Logic and prudence are essential in a working Democracy; Without them, you are like eating ice cream...
JECON B. NADELA Wisdom is a result of prudence, knowledge and information
SUNDAY ADELAJA This is time for prudence among lenders and investors.
CHARLES DALLARA Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be
shunned.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Archers ever
Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid
(Archer of archers both in men and...
GEORGE CHAPMAN 'Tis true no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a desperate amour,
As he that has two strings t' ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Look before you ere you leap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the
stag, and afterwards, when he has been...
HENRY DE BRACTON (BRATTON OR BRETTON) It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.
BIBLE Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and
both cracked.
HENRY FIELDING Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims a...
AKHENATON Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning;
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait ...
BIBLE He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has
hay on his horns, showing he is dan...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...
SASKYA PANDITA Better is to bow than breake.
JOHN HEYWOOD Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
[Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many.
[Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts
HENRY FIELDING I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be
for a glorious throne to his fathe...
BIBLE . . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your
honour and hope you wyl remember...
ELIZABETH I He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
OLD ENGLISH RHYME A coward is a man who chose to be prudent.
JECON B. NADELA For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) According to her cloth she cut her coat.
JOHN DRYDEN One can't get diseases
of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig
by eating tomatoes or
almonds or figs.
O ANNA NIEMUS Yee have many strings to your bowe.
JOHN HEYWOOD It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
JOHN HEYWOOD The first years of man must make provision for the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds
his feet uncovered.
[Ger., Wer si...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath
two strings, a title of present rig...
RICHARD HOOKER But we can't deploy everything. We would have to use prudence in how we share our resources.
LISA RAY If you are hearing voices in your head, just listen to them; But to take action is your choice.
EFRAIN JIMENEZ VAZQUEZ The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote...
BIBLE Nature acts without masters.
HIPPOCRATES Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
EDWARD ABBEY What we have is collective foolishness, rather than collective wisdom!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB Nature cannot live in pollution and we cannot live without nature.
TAUSEEF SHAH Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
UNKNOWN Wisdom dwells with prudence
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