“Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“First off, what the hell kind of name is that? Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance! What the actual… — J.C. McClean Copy Share Image
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks… — David Cortright Copy Share Image
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous… — Robert E Lee Copy Share Image
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before Mayst rule it, as… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it… — Jeff Gordon Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms,… — William Law Copy Share Image
You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
