Top 39 Imprudent Quotes
#1. 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.
James E. Faust
#2. I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.
Jane Austen
#3. Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.
Giacomo Casanova
#4. The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
Zygmunt Bauman
#6. Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
John Tillotson
#7. Respond kindly even to unkind treatment.
Respond prudently even to imprudent treatment.
Respond justly even to unjust treatment.
The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.
The stars surrender to a joyful heart.
The universe surrenders to a loving soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
Benjamin Franklin
#9. The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.
Voltaire
#11. Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire
#12. Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
Norm MacDonald
#13. - Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!
George Gissing
#14. 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.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#15. The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.
Lord Chesterfield
#16. He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose graces had intoxicated him into making the most imprudent decision of his life, was less an angel than a women.
Thomas Hardy
#17. Her heart swelled with an emotion she had never felt before. Did she dare call it love? For the second time tonight, she suspected her heart had ignored all her warnings that falling in love with the forester was imprudent and impossible. Oh, dear heaven, what am I to do now? Her
Melanie Dickerson
#18. Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.
Steven Rattner
#19. Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
Jerome K. Jerome
#20. Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.
Confucius
#21. I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!!
Alcatraz Dey
#22. I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.
Sandor Marai
#23. Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
Jose Saramago
#24. If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.
Eric Maskin
#25. Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.
Adolf Hitler
#26. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours, and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists.
Blaise Pascal
#27. When you lead the wise,
walk behind them.
When you lead the virtuous,
walk beside them.
When you lead the imprudent,
walk in front of them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova
#29. When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
Jane Austen
#30. He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.
Jerome K. Jerome
#31. Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring.
Mike Cernovich
#32. There was a midsummer restlessness abroad - early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#33. An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.
Mason Cooley
#34. The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Herbert Spencer
#36. Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
Machado De Assis
#37. I would rather be average and wise than be extraordinary and imprudent.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
Joseph Addison
#39. I was saying to him only yesterday: 'You are imprudent, M. le Comte; for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house is left unprotected.' 'Well,' said he, 'what next?' 'Well, next, someday you will be robbed."
"What did he say?"
"He quietly said: 'What do I care if I am?
Alexandre Dumas
