Temperance Quotes

141 Temperance quotes by 105 unique authors

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players… — William Shakespeare
Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and… — David Cortright
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. — Richard Mentor Johnson
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance. — Cristobal Balenciaga
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes… — Billy Graham
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. — Aristotle
New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard… — Grenville Kleiser
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust… — Theodore Roosevelt
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality,… — George Mason
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal… — Samuel Adams
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough food… — J. Reuben Clark
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,… — C.S. Lewis
For me, temperance is essential to good work. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection.… — J R Ward
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from… — Seneca the Younger
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. — Samuel Johnson
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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