Quotes About Restraint

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

A man's just gotta know his limits

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

A man must know his limitations.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.