“It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake”
Mark Twain
“My eyes are open & my heart beats but I cannot be awake for this is surely a nightmare”
James I dyer
“'This child's getting old,' he muttered with stark regularity, an old-timey refrain that mountainmen used to utter when their trailblazing days were over,”
Douglas Brinkley
“Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
William Shakespeare
“It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi”
Nelson Mandela
“The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.”
Margaret Halsey
