Quotes About Restraint

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prison they let you play Softball on the weekends.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

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

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.