J. K. Rowling Quotes

You don't try to do more than you should.

I always tell Phil we're like the party poopers. If we ever get invited to a player party, between the two of us, we're like the downers. Like, 'Put down that beer!' Or, 'Should you really be eating those nachos?'

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.

I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

Use, don't abuse.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Taste not, touch not, handle not.

It needs courage to throw oneself forward, but it needs no less to hold oneself back.

A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

I try not to get too far ahead of myself.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, 'patience' and 'restraint.'

Use your power gently.