Quotes About Restraint

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.Men must not turn bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

China was the first world civilization to create a modern state. But it created a modern state that was not restrained by a rule of law or by institutions of accountability to limit the power of the sovereign.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like thy sword in thy scabbard; if vented, the sword is in another?s hand.* If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

He laid his white right hand tidily atop his white left hand, on the tabletop. Smith smiled appreciatively, but still declined to come out to play. Septimus tapped the toe of his shoe on the floor. Tap-tap-tap: a foot tutting.

callamos los volcanes florecidos!

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.

Always be careful, my boy, what you make up. Life's more full of things made up on the Spur of the Moment than most people realize. Beware of the Spur of the Moment. It may turn and rend you.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Betreffs des Mauls, da solltet Ihr das Eure vielleicht halten.

Most of the time, I was biting my tongue. If I wanted to be invited back, I couldn't go on the 700 Club and tell people that the host was a lunatic. I couldn't go on Dobson's Focus on the Family and tell the truth: The host was a power-crazed political manipulator cynically abusing his followers. And I couldn't tell my Hollywood producers that they were full of shit when they cast their girlfriends to star in their movie. I wanted the next job!

Ernest. Oh, I can't eat any more. Hans. Just this shining muscatelle! Ernest. My elasticity has its limit.

Won't say I hate you–but my admiration for you is under control.

Ebrahim made him understand that, no matter what, he could not advance beyond the white line, for that would be in defiance of God's laws.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.