Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among… — Plato Copy Share Image
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's… — Robby Gordon Copy Share Image
The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. Then in another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“Thus Epicurus also, when he designs to destroy the natural fellowship of mankind, at the same time makes use of that which… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
