Quotes About Restraint

You are not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen.

Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.

The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved; these golden fetters rang like precious little bells; and what with that ringing, and with the rustle of silk and brocade and fine linen, there was a flutter in the air that fanned Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away.

Keep where you are,

As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled

Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!

sapevo, con mio grande dolore, molto spesso, se non sempre, che l'amavo a dispetto della ragione, a dispetto di ogni promessa, a dispetto della mia pace, a dispetto della speranza, a dispetto della felicità, a dispetto di ogni possibile scoraggiamento. Una volta per tutte: non l'amavo di meno perché lo sapevo, e il fatto che lo sapessi non valeva a frenarmi...

It was with extreme difficulty that Nipper, the black-eyed, who looked on steadfastly, contained herself at this crisis, and, until the subsequent departure of Mrs. Chick. But the nursery being at length free of visitors, she made herself some recompense for her late restraint.

For gracious sake, don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that.

eighteen years a secret and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille;

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.

The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.

The prevailin weakness of most public men is to SLOP OVER! Washington never slopt over.

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

Science is a turtle that says that its own shell encloses all things.

Thank you paper clips, for being like staples that can't commit.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

It is foolish to say sharp, hasty things, but 't is a deal more foolish to write 'em. When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded — and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.