The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
“The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
