Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?” — Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso Copy Share Image
Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
These 21st-century 'teavangelicals,' who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Strong drink has agitated the town since its founding. Almost its first organization was a temperance society. Its founders had three anathemas,… — Earnest Elmo Calkins Copy Share Image
“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings… — Ian Wilson Copy Share Image
