Quotes About Restraint

The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde.

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

Frustration is anger caged in impatience.

If it's worth getting upset over, then go ahead, but is it really?

Wildness dances Inhibition stumbles

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

A fast is better than a bad meal.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.

Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.

I dare not kill you. But I can break more bones, and you will walk sideways like a crab.

The exercise of liberty requires moral and intellectual virtues that oppose those habits fostered by the reigning economic, social, and cultural elites. The virtue most essential to liberty is self-control, yet the ruling principle behind egalitarianism, Hollywood-style hedonism, and unbridled materialism is the notion that one's appetites for pleasure and possessions should brook no limits.

In the desert we say Make haste slowly.

As the two wardens looked on, the jailer shackled the old woman to an iron band with

That which supremely differentiates the fool from the wise man is this—that the fool meets passion with passion, hatred with hatred, and returns evil for evil; whereas the wise man meets passion with peace, hatred with love, and returns good for evil.

He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.

If one would find peace, he must come out of passion.

people perceive you as stupid when you do this. Just keep quiet when someone is talking.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.