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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. -- Horace
Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing -- Jacquie Phelan
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? -- William Shakespeare
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. -- Marcus Aurelius
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain. -- Choi Hong Hi
Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer. -- Lisa Ling
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. -- Kenneth Grahame
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement. -- Seneca the Younger
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. -- Ryan Cayabyab
Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own. -- Pat Croce
Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly; repent and move on. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. -- George Washington
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. -- Gloria Swanson
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
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. -- Hilaire Belloc
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. -- Juvenal
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
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. -- Germaine Greer
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. -- Mark Twain
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
Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency. -- William Shakespeare
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold -- Robert A. Heinlein
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. -- Pythagoras
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain. -- Claude Bernard
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. -- Rachel Carson
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. -- Chen Shui-bian
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. -- Simone Weil
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. -- E. W. Howe
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. -- Gautama Buddha
The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public. -- Ron Paul
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. -- Andre Gide
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. -- Rachel Carson
To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible. -- Thomas S. Monson
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life. -- Gregory of Nyssa
Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice. -- Pema Chodron
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else. -- Dogen
Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing? -- William A. Dembski
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. -- Simone Weil
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it. -- Mitch Daniels
I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
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
Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. -- Tom T. Hall
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
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. -- James Gleick
Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you've given it, don't concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying 'I told you so.' -- Harvey Mackay
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit. -- Zygmunt Bauman
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense. -- John O. Brennan
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power. -- Andrea Bocelli
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.' -- Nathan Myhrvold
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran. -- Mustafa Akyol
I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday, that I will find an interesting comment or poke or video, and on the extremely rare occasion when that happens, I am just thrilled. -- Roseanne Barr
Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs. -- Gautama Buddha
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue. -- Horace
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing. -- Augustus William Hare
There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline. -- Forrest Gander
Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin. -- Thomas Aquinas
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat. -- Gautama Buddha
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain. -- Alan Bennett
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. -- Jean de La Fontaine
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. -- Margaret Halsey
I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process. -- Bill Belichick
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain. -- John Heywood
On the set of Besharam I had to refrain from smoking, out of respect for my parents -- Ranbir Kapoor
It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud. -- Orson Scott Card
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known? -- William Shakespeare
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. -- Hilaire Belloc
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. -- James Agate
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. -- Pema Chodron
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough -- Edgar Watson Howe
The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others. -- Dalai Lama
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others. -- Joel Bakan
I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually. -- Christopher Rice
If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do. -- Tim Gunn
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. -- Gautama Buddha
To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System. -- Luther L. Bohanon
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. -- Don Williams
Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people? -- Jeff Lindsay
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. -- John Maynard Keynes
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. -- Seneca the Younger
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. -- Chauncey Depew
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life. -- N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good. -- Dalai Lama
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life. -- N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.... -- John Ashbery
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. -- Gautama Buddha
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. -- Margaret Sanger
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him! -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain. -- Gretl Braun
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana. -- Bassui Tokusho
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
Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later. -- Dan Wells
[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others. -- Noam Chomsky
It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air. -- John Cassian
I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so I will refrain. -- Julie Halpern
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat. -- Gautama Buddha
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans. -- Coco Chanel
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no! -- Maria W. Stewart
If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this? -- Sun Myung Moon
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed. -- Seneca the Younger
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us. -- Alice Miller
The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any. -- Heidi Julavits
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. -- Che Guevara
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing. -- Blaise Pascal
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen. -- Polycarp
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
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass. -- Ernesto Che Guevara
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood. -- Ben Marcus
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared. -- Seneca the Younger
We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true. -- Carroll Eugene Simcox
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrowÂ? and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't. -- Joseph Conrad

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