Quotes About Restraint

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

A good man never fights with a woman.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.