Phoebe Robinson Quotes

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Some of the best things you do are the things you don't do.

A prince must, above all things, accustom himself to moderate his desires. For as he has the power of gratifying them, if he once gives way to them, he will run to the greatest excess, and, by destroying his subjects, will at last complete his own ruin. In order to form himself to this moderation, nothing is more proper, than to accustom himself to patience. This is the most necessary of all virtues for those, who are to command. A man must be patient to become master of himself and others.

The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.

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

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Protect me from what I want.

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.