self-control Quotes

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.