All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
Ezra Stiles

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Johan Huizinga

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels

He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses.
Don J. Manuel

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
Lana Turner

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'
Michael Bay

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
Brad Bird

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
Alain Prost

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.
Nobuo Uematsu

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
Gene Simmons

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
Tim Robbins

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.
Charles Krauthammer

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Thucydides

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
Pythagoras

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.
William Hamilton Maxwell

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
Ward Churchill

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
Margaret Cavendish