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An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. -- Theophrastus
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand. -- William Cavendish
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. -- Alexander Herzen
I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good. -- Ray Nagin
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. -- William Drummond
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit. -- Alice Morse Earle
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. -- D. H. Lawrence
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore. -- Jill Greenberg
Prosperity lets goe the bridle. -- George Herbert
It is good to hold the asse by the bridle. -- George Herbert
Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. -- Hyman Rickover
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. -- Minna Antrim
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. -- Plutarch
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. -- Peire Cardenal
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.] -- George Herbert
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. -- Jeremy Taylor
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand. -- William Cavendish
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. -- Mary Renault
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. -- Robert A. Burton
No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. -- R. Scott Bakker
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. -- Philip Sidney
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. -- Socrates
I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more. -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue. -- R. Kent Hughes
He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore." -- Walter Scott
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark. -- John Climacus
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety." -- William Drummond
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one. -- Peire Cardenal
Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod. -- Herman Melville
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism. -- Maxim Gorky
My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other. -- Jonathan Swift

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