Quotes About Restraint

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.

Spartan simplicity must be observed. Nothing will be done merely because it contributes to beauty, convenience, comfort, or prestige.

The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.

A fool uttereth all his mind.

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.

Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.

Nothing too much.

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.

Il ne faut pas être plus royaliste que le roi [One must not be more royalist than the king].

Nihil nimis [Nothing in excess].

I have said too much, it is my way. I forget, you English, you like to come at things slowly, little by little, to leave much unsaid.

Não me agarre com tanta força senhor mas percebi que tinha de me prender assim, não por minha causa, por ele, não disse - Não fale no meu irmão mais velho por saber que não ia falar e a prova que não ia falar estava em que quase não conseguia mexer-me, a quantidade de alturas em que devíamos dizer - Pai e não dizemos

poner al Ejército firme, imponer el orden en este desastre, gobernar esta letrina, unos sopapos aquí y allá, los semanarios callados, el pueblo callado que es lo que le gusta, créame

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

It reminds me of the Irish prisoner who dug a tunnel under the prison wall and managed to escape. He comes out right in the middle of a school playground where little children are playing. Of course, when he emerges from the tunnel he can't restrain himself anymore and begins to jump up and down, crying, "I'm free, I'm free, I'm free! A little girl there looks at him scornfully and says, "That's nothing. I'm four.

Far better, he decides, to keep one's presence small, inconspicuous.

A moment like this--the four of them around the table under the sad, dusty kitchen lamp--could never accommodate all the things she had to say.

He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.

There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.

According to Dio, he promised not to "take any cruel action simply because I have conquered

another letter from Atia and Octavius' stepfather arrived. They advised him not to get overexcited