All things Quote by Francois Rabelais

“On the mainland he had always lived in the future, always looking forward to the completion of the project in hand. When he passed…

— Richard Herley

This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.

— Samuel Daniel

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on…

— Thomas Merton

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use…

— Claudius Claudianus

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

— John Bartholomew Gough

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the…

— Anonymous

“And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and…

— Socrates

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

— John Burns

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have…

— Seneca the Younger

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…

— J. Reuben Clark

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right…

— Aristotle

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank…

— Billy Sunday