Temperate Quotes

59 quotes by 49 authors

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. — Benjamin Franklin
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate… — William O. Douglas
Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend… — Jerome Lawrence
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government,… — George Washington
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the… — John of Kronstadt
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that… — William Duncan Silkworth
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate… — Marcus Aurelius
To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual… — Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. — Joan Didion
Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the… — Timothy Keller
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, â€” its hue, first… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of… — Diablo Cody
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon… — Edward Dahlberg
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and… — David Fairchild
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. — Arthur Keith
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for… — Benjamin Franklin
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare

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