Quotes About Restraint

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.