And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone… — Samuel Smiles 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
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it. — Dan Rice Copy Share Image
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all. — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest… — William Lyon Mackenzie King 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
