I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good… — Jeanette MacDonald 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
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
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
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. — William Shakespeare 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
O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made… — John Milton 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
Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence. — Sathya Sai Baba 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
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake… — Saint Augustine 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
Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public… — Plato Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
