Quotes About Restraint

he never dared to allow this smile a definite expression on his features,

That feeling of veneration which we always have for those who hold, and exercise without restraint, the power to do us harm.

it was the bridle which, so as to avoid all appearance of egotism, she herself used to curb the gratification which her friend was attempting to procure for her.

that feeling of veneration which we always have for those who wield unrestrained power to do us harm.

She refrained from uttering it? So at least I long believed, for at that time I still supposed that it was by means of words that one communicated the truth to others.

This house could have been a prison or a hospital, but a prison where they locked up the innocent to prevent them from suffering, or a hospital where one goes to recover from the labor of life. And Monelle was both the jailer and the nurse.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

Passions stem from frustrated desire.

Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

No Sane man will dance.

There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

I had the additional disadvantage of being unable to approve my own conduct; being a child of the age, I knew how wrong and how misguided it was. I walked around with a scarlet letter embroidered upon my bosom, visible enough in the end, but the A stood for Abstinence, not for Adultery.

no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return.

If you can't afford it, you can't have it.

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

If There Be Sorrow If there be sorrow let it be for things undone undreamed unrealized unattained to these add one: Love withheld ... restrained

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

All I could do was to hold on tight to the sides of the chair, and keep myself from sucking his fingers. 'Would

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint."Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn."Inns are not residences.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.