Prudence is the other woman in Gordon's life.

-Anonymous
  On Gordon Brown. Comment from unidentified aide, quoted on BBC News online, 20 Mar.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract. 306

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

Self-denial isnot avirtue: it isonly theeffect of prudence on rascality.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists:Virtues and Vices'.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Sir Oliver Surface.The School for Scandal, act 2, sc.3.

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to makethantobuy.Thetaylordoesnot attempttomakehis ownshoe†All ofthemfind itfor their interestto employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours and to purchase with a part of its produce†whatever else they have occasion for† What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom† Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland?

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.2.

The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

-Wordsworth,William
  'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12^14 (published1842).