Quotes About Restraint

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear.

Marian and I avoided all further reference to that other subject, which by her consent and mine, was not to be mentioned between us yet. It was not the less present in our minds--it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

An ancient critic spoke of him as "moderate to excess.

Desire is infinite, fulfilment is limited

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.

Damn braces...bless relaxes.