“Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion!” — Antoine François Prévost Copy Share Image
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. — John Adams Copy Share Image
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as… — Alexander Clark Copy Share Image
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Be Interested & Interesting. People will be more interested in you when you are interested in them. If you want to impress,… — Susan C. Young 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
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
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief. — Joe Torre 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
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
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
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions… — Douglas Adams 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
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
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the… — Learned Hand 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
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.” — Julia Glass 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
Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age. — Jonathan Swift 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
“Learn to choose your battles carefully. When you exercise discretion, you will realize that most fights are best avoided. Let those sleeping… — Susan C. Young 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
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play. — Pat Meehan Copy Share Image
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of… — Harry A. Blackmun 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
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