| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore. |
| Bible | And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. |
| Bible | Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. |
| Bible | Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. |
| Decimus Magnus Ausonius | If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. |
| Elizabeth I | . . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait. |
| Euripides | For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. |
| George Chapman | Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid. Be worse provided than a common archer? |
| Henry Fielding | Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. |
| Henry Fielding | The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. |
| John Heywood | Better is to bow than breake. |
| John Heywood | It is good the have a hatch before the durre. |
| John Heywood | Yee have many strings to your bowe. |
| O Anna Niemus | One can't get diseases of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig by eating tomatoes or almonds or figs. |
| Old English Rhyme | He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day. |
| Richard Hooker | So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Precaution is better than cure. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. |
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