top of page
"It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one's means in the use of the word "love"."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Restraint quotes

"It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one's means in the use of the word "love"."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so."
Author Name
Personal Development

"After one and a half cocktails, finding the appropriate response is a bit of a challenge. I finally say, 'Thank you for inviting me,' and leave the less desirable 'Want to play strip poker?' in the unscrupulous part of my brain where it belongs."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If you don't like your teeth, keep your mouth shut."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far."
Author Name
Personal Development

"We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The less said the better."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
Society

"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
Man

"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
Heart

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
Change

"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
Death

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
Life

"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
Heart

"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
Society

"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
Man

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
Desire
bottom of page