Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Discretion is a girl's best friend. Learn when to use it, and when to let it slip.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind,… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“Discretion,” said Fen with great complacency, “is my middle name.” “I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.” — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you:… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
“Discretion is the Larger Part of Valor Discretion represents both your personal self-respect and the respect you have for other people. A… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Disavowal is an unusual form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“The variety of political positions shared on Facebook in the 2016 Presidential Election was both entertaining and, sadly, destructive. I observed friends… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of… — Don Mattrick Copy Share Image
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