Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the…

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

— Freya Stark

“I am thinking that there is “a lot of sugar in the bottom of life’s cup” if I am willing to keep on learning.”

— Guideposts

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Commonality & Camaraderie. By identifying, developing, and connecting powerful points of reference to others, you will have a rich resource of information from which…

— Susan C. Young

Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each…

— Edward Gibbon

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

— Norm MacDonald

“All sexual activity performed is at the discretion of the participants and is confined to only one hour.”

— Karen A.Miles

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with…

— Barbara Tuchman

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every…

— Warren E. Burger