If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Around the year 2023 the American people would be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight.

Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room.

He who has far to ride spares his horse.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Don't call a wolf to help you against the dogs.

Have more strings to thy bow than one.

Milk the cow which is near.

Although it rains, throw not away your watering pot.

The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

The eye of prudence may never shut.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

The better part of valour is discretion.