“Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)”
Horace
“Good nature without prudence, is foolishness”
Proverb
“To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance”
Spanish Proverb
“Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative”
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
William Blake
“Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life”
Akhenaton
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