Discretion Quotes
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.
The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
