Quotes About Restraint

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. ("Crépuscule du désir")

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Right now, your destiny is to shut up!

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

No dignity without distance.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

Don't share your dreams with everyone. Make them a reality - then share.