Intemperate Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden… — James Madison
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but… — Tertullian
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate. — Henry David Thoreau
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. — Alan Bleasdale
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. — George D. Prentice
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. — Aristotle
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys… — Jean de la Bruyere
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion… — Rudyard Kipling
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetitesâ€¦in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said. — Jean Rhys
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which… — Lord Byron

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