The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.” — Joseph Livesey Copy Share Image
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving. — Marc Edwards Copy Share Image
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Some very elegant dishes were served up to himself and a few more of us, whilst those placed before the rest of… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions — St Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels. — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
