Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions — St Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels. — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. — Joseph Addison 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
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
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
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
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
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw 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
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
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
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“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 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
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle 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
