P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Prođimo redom sve vrste zadovoljstava što ih takvo putovanje pruža. Putuješ li sa ženom?
- Da.
- Znači, jedno zadovoljstvo manje.
Ostaju: krajobrazí, kazališta, muzeji i obiteljski posjeti.”
Source: Seasick Whale: An Israeli Abroad
“Prošlost je najveće priviđenje! Prošlost je mjesto gdje je sagorilo vrijeme!”
Source: Pjesme divljih ptica
“Prošlost neka ostane prošlima. Budućnost pokloni sadašnjima.”
“Pru had gotten under his skin, and like her, he wanted more. So much more. He wanted to know her secrets, the ones that sometimes put those shadows in her eyes. He wanted to know what made her tick. And more than anything, he wanted to taste her again.
Every inch of her.”
“Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.”
“Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.”
“Prudence and insight often conceal a tepid, weak heart.”
Source: Everyman Today Call Rome/Includes Study Guide
“Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.”
“Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.”
“Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.”
“Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.”
“Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.”
“Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.”
“Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.”
“Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.”
“Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.”
Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of
“Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.”
Source: Leviathan
“Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.”
“Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.”
“Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
“Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”
Source: Leviathan
“Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.”
“Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.”
Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke
“Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.”
Source: Vocabulary of Philosophy Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical by William Fleming
“Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.”
Source: Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs
“Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.”
“Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.”
“Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.”
“Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]”
“Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“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.”
“Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.”
“Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.”
Source: The Elements of Morality, Including Polity
“Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.”
“Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.”
Source: Machiavelli, More & Luther
“Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.”
“Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.”
“Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.”
“Prudent avoidance is a logical way to protect yourself and your family from ingredients and chemicals suspected to be harmful but not scientifically proven to be harmful, by simply avoiding them instead of waiting for evidence, because evidence will come too late to be meaningful.”
Source: HEADACHE AND MIGRAINE CONTROL DIET
“Prudent investing is about ensuring the safety of principal and reasonable returns.”
“Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.”
“Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.”
Source: 1708-1720
“Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.”
“Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.”
Source: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
“Prudenta lui ii egala averea. Era de o umilinta excesiva. Niciodata orgoliul nu-l prinsese in capcanele sale. Acest negustor se facea atat de mic, de bland, de placut si de sarac la curte, in fata printeselor, regilor si favoritilor, incat aceasa modestie si bonomie ii pazisera afacerea.”
“Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”
Source: Stendhal on Love