Quotes About Restraint

Use your power gently.

She slapped Kestrel's face. Without thinking twice, Kestrel slapped her back, as hard as she could. The young woman burst into tears. The servant saw this, aghast. "Baby!" She exclaimed. "Oh, my poor baby!" "You've been kind to me," said Kestrel, "and you're very beautiful, but if you hit me again I'll kill you.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

I think the dead should shut up unless there's something to say

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

At your ageThe heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.

Sir Toby: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?Clown: Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest.

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbearTo dig the dust enclosed here;Blest be the man that spares these stones,And curst be he that moves my bones.

Press not a falling man too far.

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

Had he not resembledMy father as he slept I had done 't.

And art made tongue-tied by authority.

Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ankle.

You tread upon my patience.

Keep a good tongue in your head.

Do not give dallianceToo much the rein.

I would have thee gone;And yet no further than a wanton's bird,Who lets it hop a little from her hand,Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,And with a silk thread plucks it back again,So loving-jealous of his liberty.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

A Fourth Turning brings new interest in the rational and classical, in simplicity, restraint, and decorum—while gender-related fashions begin to reformalize and return to elegance.