Quotes about Restraint

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery

Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

You lose it if you talk about it.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

Every other animal responds to the call of sex only in "season." Man's inclination is to declare "open season.

Saying more might push them both to a place they couldn't get back from. He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be. Its lid rusted shut. He would not pry it loose now in front of this sweet sturdy woman, for if she got a whiff of the contents it would shame him. And it would hurt her to know that there was no red heart bright as Mister's comb beating in him.