A Quote by William Hazlitt

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
English - Critic
April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

Douglas Adams

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

William Shakespeare

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.

Alex Honnold

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Aristophanes

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel de Cervantes

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel de Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel de Cervantes

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

Jim Butcher

Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.

Charles Churchill

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Max Lucado

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Samuel Johnson

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