Discretion

(160 votes)   Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.

Latvian Proverbs
Sayings of Latvian Origin

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(137 votes)   For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(132 votes)   Never say ''oops'' in the operating room.

Dr. Leo Troy

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(116 votes)   Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

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(102 votes)   Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(99 votes)   I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth
1933-, American Novelist

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(86 votes)   Better a living dog than a dead lion.

Proverbs

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