Prudence Quotes - Page 17

• In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Order, Economy, Feminine

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Enemy, Foundation

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1413, Delphi Classics

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• Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

  Elinor Glyn

  Jealousy, Parent, Passionate

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.178, eBookIt.com

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• Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

  James Thomas Fields

  Heaven, Desire, Battle

  James Thomas Fields (1849). “Poems”, p.16

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• The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Pride, Men, Common Sense

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• But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Selfish, Special, Trying

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• Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

  Goliarda Sapienza

  Enemy, Surprise, Caution

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• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Medicine, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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