80 Curb Quotes
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Famous Curb Quotes
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins — Priscilla Shirer
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. — Homer
Control success before it controls you. — Dwight Yoakam
Keep a mid course between two extremes. — Ovid
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able. — Ovid
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. — Pythagoras
Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root. — Robert Burns
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. — Robert W. Service
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man. — Democritus
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. — Epictetus
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. — Tryon Edwards
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction — John Bunyan
Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Beware of releasing the restraints in you; Listen if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft. — Egyptian Proverbs
Short Curb Quotes
- Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. — Friedrich Engels
- An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. — Jules Renard
- Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life. — Larry David
- To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. — Lewis Mumford
- We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. — Will Rogers
- I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood. — Beanie Sigel
- Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China? — Larry David
- In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane
- We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. — Will Rogers
- I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car. — Alain Prost
Curb Your Enthusiasm Quotes
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. — Robert Englund
I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm. — Wanda Sykes
I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time. — Larry David
I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that. — Matthew Gray Gubler
Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses. — Kevin Nealon
I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with. — Larry David
You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home. — Simon Pegg
I have that sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David/George Costanza thing where people are like, "How did you feel writing such an unlikable character?" And I'm like, "It's me! I based him on myself!" There are certain moments where they do feel like unwittingly personal attacks. — Steve Toltz
I love, I absolutely, love the Office and Curb your Enthusiasm. Those are just classic shows. — Steve Purdy
It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing. — Max Tundra
People Writing About Curb
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Ovid |
714 | 3612 |
 Larry David |
84 | 608 |
 Will Rogers |
741 | 9006 |
 Priscilla Shirer |
30 | 1250 |
 Adi Shankara |
26 | 5150 |
 Homer |
508 | 2784 |
More Curb Quotes
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim. — Jeff Cooper
Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality. — Sivananda
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority. — Lord Acton
I'm not a deeply religious person and I don't really know if there's a God or not and I don't really even care, but something out there has got to control something. Because people can put a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger and live and someone else can slip on the curb and die. — Sonny Barger
Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south. — Greg Walden
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. — John Keats
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. — Bob Dylan
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher. — Bobby Jindal
While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate the welfare of another human or an animal. So, where necessary, it is the task of the government to intervene and curb the freedom of religion. — Marianne Thieme
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon. — Al McGuire
A hormone produced by muscles during vigorous exercise may one day be used as a drug to treat excessive alcohol use. The FGF21 hormone, when given as a drug, reduces alcohol consumption by 50% in monkeys. This underscores how important EXERCISE is for curbing drinking behavior. — Rhonda Patrick
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand. — W.N.P. Barbellion
Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative. — T. Colin Campbell
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory. — Joe Rogan
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life. — John Galsworthy
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. — Lee Trevino
A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!" — Henny Youngman
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning. — Julia Kristeva
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood. — Deborah Harkness
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive. — Ayn Rand
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success. — Bobby Jones
You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money. — Bernie Sanders
Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be. — C.P. Cavafy
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation. — Solomon Burke
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. — Walter Scott
...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds. — Leonard Read
I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb. — Miranda Cosgrove
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. — Frances Burney
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better. — Amy Poehler
If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most. — Jim Yong Kim
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are. — Ludwig von Mises
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