#refrain

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

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#consider #could #fat #i #over

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #brings #evil #fear #generality

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#kill #our #refrain #same #their

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#always #build #freedom #ideal #lost

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

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#book #child #cutting #out #pictures

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#command #criticism #debatable #does #fair

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