Quotes About Restraint

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.