Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Question your grace the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied read more

Question your grace the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
discretion, and I will right myself like read more

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your
tutor. Suit the action to the word, read more

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your
tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with
this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of
nature.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty

A closed mouth catches no flies.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Never say "oops" in the operating room.

Never say "oops" in the operating room.