Inspirational Quotes on Discretion

“Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasures; the limits of good and evil join.”

“Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”

“If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.”

“He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”

“Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, sometimes to the danger of his choking.”

“If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.”

“Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.”

“If the master takes no account of his servants, they will make small account of him, and care not what they spend, who are never brought to an audit.”

“Bad excuses are worse than none.”

“Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.”

“Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.”

“Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.”

“Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense.”

“One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.”

“Soft words are hard arguments.”

“Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.”

“Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.”

“With foxes we must play the fox.”

“'Tis better that thou be rather something sparing, than very liberal, to even a good servant; for as he grows full, he inclines either to be idle, or to leave thee: and if he should at any time murmur, thou mayest govern him by a seasonable reward.”

“Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.”