Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish 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
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“...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
“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
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
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
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
