Quotes About Restraint

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

A man has to know his limitations.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

The superior man limits his achievements.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.