All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have…

“On the mainland he had always lived in the future, always looking forward to the completion of the project in hand. When he passed…

— Richard Herley

This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.

— Samuel Daniel

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on…

— Thomas Merton

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use…

— Claudius Claudianus

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

— John Bartholomew Gough

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the…

— Anonymous

“And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and…

— Socrates

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

— John Burns

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have…

— Seneca the Younger

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough…

— J. Reuben Clark

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right…

— Aristotle

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank…

— Billy Sunday

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and…

— Socrates

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that…

— Silouan the Athonite

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

— William Shakespeare