Quotes About Restraint

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

True happiness springs from moderation.

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

celebrate your happiness in limit so others not feel abashment.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.