Quotes About Restraint

The price of abundance is restraint.

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

If you don't know what to do, do nothing.

Shutting up and just blinking at them is like giving them an information Heimlich," he'd said. "Be patient, and they'll cough it up all over you." Sure enough, Dina hacked it up.

I look at the bottle. I feel so diminished just then that I don't even have the confidence to reach over and pour myself another, let alone smack my sister over the head with it.

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.

it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

a man has to draw the line somewhere. Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

I'm always worried about overhype. I love underhype.

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

As comedians, we all get into that mode of thinking of the worst thing imaginable - but you usually have the ability to pull back before releasing it to the world.

I am going to fight on the pitch for Newcastle and if it comes to the stage where someone says can you fight for England then I will fight for England. But I am not going to go on about it. It is just not worth it.

I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

I drink a ton of water. And I never go to bed too full.

The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

I know there are a lot of comics that put their kids all over social media, but I think it's weird. There are over 100,000 people following you. To me, it feels like you should probably tone that down.