prudent

How To Use prudent In A Sentence

• The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
• Received entomological wisdom holds that a ‘prudent’ parasite does not kill its host.
• But if they are needy as a consequence of their criminal, irrational, or imprudent behavior, then it is not a fine thing.
• more prudent to hide than to fight
• Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
• I started him in the mortgage loan business when we got the Prudential Insurance Company account in 1919 and he was my subman down in Florence. Oral History Interview with Alester G. Furman Jr., January 6, 1976. Interview B-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• “but it would be, if not more prudent, since that word displeases you, at least more natural —” Around the World in 80 Days
• They whiche unto the warre have given rule, will that the menne be chosen out of temperate countries, to the intente they may have hardines, and prudence, for as muche as the hote countrey, bredes prudente men and not hardy, the colde, hardy, and not prudente. Machiavelli, Volume I
• Allthough it could be just prudent housekeeping ahead of the expected cuts and the hootsmon is spinning it as a "rammy with westminster" article, we all know Westminster are going to be scrooge and cant afford it after Browns disaster. The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters
• It is prudent we pause further reductions while the current situation is unfolding. The Sun