Bridle On Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Weave for the mighty chestnut
A tributary crown
Of autumn leaves, the brightest then
When autumn leaves are brown
Hang up his bridle on the wall,
His saddle on the tree,
Till time shall bring some racing king
Worthy to wear as he!

William Nack

#3. 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

#4. But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Nikos Kazantzakis

#5. 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

#6. All men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.

George Eliot

#7. The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Plutarch

#8. An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

Theophrastus

#9. Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Hyman Rickover

#11. He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. "Your love for him has damaged your senses."
"And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence

Maria V. Snyder

#12. Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our soul and authority to bridle our appetites.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. No government likes the clever and the honourable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

D. Morgenstern

#15. And the largest piece was buried beneath a pile of offal Ziller had gathered along the bridle paths of Central Park. Naturally, as the days wore on, the exhibition began to engage senses other than sight and touch, offering somewhat of a challenge to olfactory aesthetics.

Tom Robbins

#16. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#17. Clara will break him to bridle," Longmore said. "And if she can't cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he'll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she'll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.

Loretta Chase

#18. To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,
these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

Joanna Baillie

#19. 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

#20. Eo didn't deserve to die a slave to the Society. And despite her Color, Mustang doesn't deserve any sort of bridle.

Pierce Brown