Quotes About Restraint

She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.

Scapegrace: Back then, I was full of ideas, I was going to renovate the whole front of the pub,, and extend out to the west, maybe get in a music system a little dancefloor. In the end, I decided not to. Too expensive, you know. And, like, nobody wanted to dance so. Skulduggery: Vaurien, if you're trying to kill us, there are quicker ways than telling us your life story Valkryie: Less painful too.

Also, all these proclamations of your undying love for me are getting kind of… It's a bit much, to be honest. Just hold back a little." "But my love for you is eternal." "That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

Time is the enemy of freedom.

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.