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Should Quotes - Page 93

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.17, Lulu.com

Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.

Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.54, Bottom of the Hill

And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.117, 1st World Publishing

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.326, Duke University Press

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

Letter to Lord Althorpe, 5 October 1782, in Lord Teignmouth 'Life of Sir W. Jones' (1835) vol. 1

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

Devit v. College of Dublin, Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249, as quoted in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe (1904), p. 176, 1720.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

"Willem Dafoe: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2012.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].”, p.319