Chastity Quote by William Wycherley Download Open image “Temperance is the nurse of chastity.” — William Wycherley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chastity Inspirational Nurse Temperance
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show that she… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires. — Solon Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
