Drink Quote by John Milton

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

— William Shakespeare

Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

— DH Lawrence

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

— C. A. Bartol

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

— Edmund Burke

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…

— C. S. Lewis

“Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is”

— William Shakespeare

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to…

— Michel de Montaigne

The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in…

— Bertrand Russell

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

— Robert A. Burton

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must…

— George Orwell

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in…

— Benjamin Franklin

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

— James Fitzjames Stephen