Top Restraint Quotes
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Zach Wamp
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Lytton Strachey
Osbert Lancaster 
Bob Filner 
Henry Miller 
Phyllis Schlafly 
Lytton Strachey 
Marquis de Sade All Restraint Quotes
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
Bill Maher 
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Osbert Lancaster
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson
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Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
Cedric Hardwicke
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore
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Popular Restraint Authors
Mohandas GandhiJohn RuskinMichel de MontaigneJohn F. KennedyEdmund BurkeHenry MillerMae WestWoodrow WilsonHenry B. AdamsMarquis de SadePhyllis SchlaflyAlexis de TocquevilleDaniel WebsterBill MaherSimone de Beauvoir
Lee H. HamiltonArthur Keith MaimonidesZach WampLascelles AbercrombieMarianne MooreHenry L. StimsonLytton StracheyBarbara DemingGeorge MasonMary Wortley MontaguAlgernon SydneyBob FilnerSextus PropertiusRuss Feingold
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