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
Henry B. Adams 
Mae West 
George Mason 
Marquis de Sade 
Daniel Webster 
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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner 
64% of people like this quote
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Zach Wamp
62% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne
57% of people like this quote
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Maimonides
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There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.
Henry L. Stimson
57% of people like this quote
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