Quotes About Restraint

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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GOLDEN RULE: Never reply when angry, emotional, or buzzed.

I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened.

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Bear and forbear.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.