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«The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg (Novelist) | Keywords: accredited, ambrosial, buttocks, contentment, handsome, marvelous, pair, prudence, recommend, shortly, thighs, troll, trolls, void, womb
«The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts»
Author: Henry Fielding (Novelist, Playwright) | About: Prudence | Keywords: defeated, heads, prudence, tenderness
«Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes (Philosopher) | Keywords: bestows, prudence
«There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: excessive, imprudent, prudence
«There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Fear, Prudence, Wisdom | Keywords: caution, courageous, prudence, reptile, reptiles
«Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | About: Youth | Keywords: prudence, rashness
«Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: composition, elevation, miscarriage, miscarriages, operates, procures, prudence
«Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: prudence
«The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: An Age, prudence, retract, retracted, retracts
«Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | About: Prudence | Keywords: courted, incapacity, maid, Old Court, old maid, prudence
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