Quotes About Temperance

In any game between power and patience, bet on patience.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

People who want to get everything all at once, usually end up getting nothing in life.

Passions stem from frustrated desire.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Patience is more worthy than miracle-working.

Dios nos ha hecho polifónicos. El señorío de sí, también conocido desde siempre como templanza, no es frialdad cerebral: Dios nos quiere con un "corazón grande, fuerte, tierno, afectuoso y delicado" (Amigos de Dios, n.º 77)»[2].

GOLDEN RULE: Never reply when angry, emotional, or buzzed.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.