Quotes About Restraint

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction...

Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

Culture means control over nature.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

If a man couldn't control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.