Quotes About Restraint

There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private that's me.

I don't talk about my personal life in the press that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained

Rather be a thin dog free, than to be a fat one chained

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

I'm accustomed to toxicity and can't control myself when I'm near it.

Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.

Sometime don't think don't say don't do…is the best way to deal with life!

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine.

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grapeCrush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Use as much water as you need but not a drop more.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.

When you have nothing to say, one of your alternatives is to keep your trap shut.

Along with such things as free and regular elections and an independent judiciary empowered to interpret the constitution (not necessarily written), civil disobedience used with due restraint and sound judgment helps to maintain and strengthen just institutions.

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

For truthfully, Your Honors, if a man can love his daughter and she love him in return, with honesty and restraint, then what act, what station, can we aspire to . . . that would be more civilized than that?