Quotes About Restraint

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'.

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze.

Silence is safer than speech.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Cut back your spending now.

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.

I don't like spending money.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

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.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

I would never do anything just for spite.