Quotes about Restraint

The work under our labour grows, luxurious by restraint.

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

Learn us all the refinement and education that there's a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.

The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.