If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne 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
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from… — Wilhelm von Humboldt 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
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” — Seneca 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
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes… — Billy Graham 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
As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show… — Elizabeth Taylor 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
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could. — John Bartholomew Gough 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
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper. — James Moore 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
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
