Exercise Discretion

Famous quotes containing the words exercise and/or discretion:

“I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

“We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)