Quotes about Restraint

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.

I must confess, though, that I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals. I think I exercise tremendous restraint in this, but my editor says, 'Would you stop this beauty business.' And I say, 'Wait, wait until I tell you about these ants.

They did everything but slap each other, and finally they did that. What postponed the inevitable were loves forlorn and a very young girl in too tight clothes tapping on the screen door.

Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.