Temperance Quotes

141 Temperance quotes by 105 unique authors

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her… — Claudius Claudianus
He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow… — Max Muller
Temper your future actions. — Tom DeLay
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. — Unknown Author
As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show. — Jeanette MacDonald
The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and… — David A. Clarke, Jr
Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer. — Wes Fesler
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it. — Dan Rice
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value… — Robert Green Ingersoll
For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. — James Gandolfini
I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of… — James Gandolfini
I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best… — Jeff Gordon
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and… — Marcus Aurelius
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is… — Stephen Fry
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no… — Arthur Helps
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content,… — Charles Kingsley
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,… — C.S. Lewis
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Health consists with temperance alone. — Alexander Pope
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. — Samuel Smiles
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. — Billy Sunday
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in… — Billy Sunday
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II

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