Imprudence Quotes

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

He takes the second step before the first

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Don't be so foolish as to ask for more time: calamities will not wait.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Haste is blind and improvident.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

... a fool

If it should be declared that contraception is not evil in itself, then we should have to concede frankly that the Holy Spirit had been on the side of the Protestant churches in 1930 …. This would mean that the leaders of the Church, acting with extreme imprudence, had condemned thousands of innocent human acts, forbidding, under pain of eternal damnation, a practice which would now be sanctioned. The fact can neither be denied nor ignored that these same acts would now be declared licit on the grounds of principles cited by the Protestants, which popes and bishops have either condemned or at least not approved.

He lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

He means well for his country, is always an honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes and in some things absolutely out of his senses.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

A premium is sometimes put on impropriety of conduct on the women’s part by the foreman. That is, a woman who will submit or respond to his course jokes and language and evil behaviour receives more work than the woman who feels and shows herself insulted by such conduct, and wishes to preserve her self-respect. The pittance earned by some of these women is earned at the expense of more than only hard toil. Even when this coarseness is confined to language only, it causes deep suffering to some of the women. They feel, they know, that because they are women and therefore regarded as helpless and inferior, they are spoken to as men are not spoken to, and the sting enters their souls.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as public indecency.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?