Temperance Quotes

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

— Plato

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

— Edmund Burke

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

— Mark Twain

Health consists with temperance alone.

— Alexander Pope

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

— William Shakespeare

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Temperance is love in training.

— Dwight L. Moody

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

— Thomas Aquinas

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

— Benjamin Whichcote

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

— Robert Southey

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

— St Thomas Aquinas

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.

— Artemas Ward

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

— Saint Augustine

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

— William Shakespeare

“There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.”

— Joseph Livesey

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the…

— Francis Atterbury

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then…

— Dalai Lama

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it…

— Stephen Fry

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

— Claudius Claudianus

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy…

— Max Muller

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

— John Tillotson

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

— Billy Sunday

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“God, save me from temperance," Tilly said. "You haven't seen a party till you get a group of Anglicans and Catholics trying…

— James S.A. Corey

“But I have none: the king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have…

— William Shakespeare

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— David A. Clarke, Jr

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

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

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a…

— Sam Manekshaw

I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so…

— Rajneesh

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

“First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. Then in another…

— Mark Twain

“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings…

— Ian Wilson

“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station…

— Daniel Defoe

“Strong drink has agitated the town since its founding. Almost its first organization was a temperance society. Its founders had three anathemas,…

— Earnest Elmo Calkins

“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and…

— Joseph Campbell