(735 quotes found)
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
Benjamin Franklin
“More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.”
Dave Barry
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson
“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”
Charlie Batch
“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once”
John Archibald Wheeler
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Henry de Bracton
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder”
Tertullian
“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.”
John Stuart Mill
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