Incontinent

That is why the word incontinent doesn't mean flying between European countries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It would seem you are decidedly of opinion that the incontinent are the reverse of free? ❋ Unknown (2007)

But such, though as much led away as the others, we do not in like manner call incontinent and intemperate, since they are ruined through ignorance and want of experience. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This being so, (a) those who go to excess with reference to the latter, contrary to the right rule which is in themselves, are not called incontinent simply, but incontinent with the qualification ‘in respect of money, gain, honour, or anger’, - not simply incontinent, on the ground that they are different from incontinent people and are called incontinent by reason of a resemblance. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

For it is not the man who gives way to any sort of pleasure whatever who is called incontinent, but only he who gives way to a certain kind of pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2002)

To have these various types of habit is beyond the limits of vice, as brutishness is too; for a man who has them to master or be mastered by them is not simple (continence or) incontinence but that which is so by analogy, as the man who is in this condition in respect of fits of anger is to be called incontinent in respect of that feeling but not incontinent simply. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

Now those in whom nature is the cause of such a state no one would call incontinent, any more than one would apply the epithet to women because of the passive part they play in copulation; nor would one apply it to those who are in a morbid condition as a result of habit. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

For so he that makes the baser element subject to the better has self-control and is a superior man, whereas he who allows the nobler element of the soul to follow and be subservient to the incorrigible and unreasoning element, is inferior to what he might be, and is called incontinent, and is in an unnatural condition. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)

This being so, (a) those who go to excess with reference to the latter, contrary to the right rule which is in themselves, are not called incontinent simply, but incontinent with the qualification 'in respect of money, gain, honour, or anger', - not simply incontinent, on the ground that they are different from incontinent people and are called incontinent by reason of a resemblance. ❋ Aristotle (1865)

But (b) of the people who are incontinent with respect to bodily enjoyments, with which we say the temperate and the self-indulgent man are concerned, he who pursues the excesses of things pleasant-and shuns those of things painful, of hunger and thirst and heat and cold and all the objects of touch and taste-not by choice but contrary to his choice and his judgement, is called incontinent, not with the qualification ‘in respect of this or that’, e.g. of anger, but just simply. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

But (b) of the people who are incontinent with respect to bodily enjoyments, with which we say the temperate and the self-indulgent man are concerned, he who pursues the excesses of things pleasant-and shuns those of things painful, of hunger and thirst and heat and cold and all the objects of touch and taste-not by choice but contrary to his choice and his judgement, is called incontinent, not with the qualification 'in respect of this or that', e.g. of anger, but just simply. ❋ Aristotle (1865)

I see there are 95 comments and I'm much too dumb to read them all, so here is my 2 cents and I apologize if I am being grossly reduntant or "incontinent" as Ms. Cooke so nicely put it! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Could the current financial crisis do the same for "incontinent" investing? ❋ Unknown (2008)

One relaxation was found necessary; it was impossible to inflict the death penalty on "incontinent" [1110] priests, because there were so many. ❋ Unknown (1908)

This 'incontinent' display probably reflected the fact that a naive teenager who thought she was to be a fairytale princess was only seen as a brood mare and instead of displaying a stiff upper lip, had rebelled and oo - what a surprise - died! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr McCain's aides have been labelled "incontinent" for leaks last week that revealed falling morale in his inner circle and mutual recriminations about his lacklustre campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)