#refrain

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#dinner #english #face #merely #never

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. ↗

— Horace

#count #everyday #fortune #gain #going

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#imitation #refrain #revenge

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. ↗

— Erica Jong

#because #between #criticizing #enormous #gap

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#carbs #cheese #day #eat #every

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#colleagues #courses #give #historical #i

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chatter #discipline #education #feed #first

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#lest #monkeys #refrain #sensibly #set

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#doing #enemy #enough #him #lies