Quotes About Temperance

Some people have resolved to be teetotalers, and they want a law passed to make everybody else a teetotaler. Some people have resolved to eschew luxury, and they want taxes laid to make others eschew luxury. The

Neither is knowledge enough, except thou beest armed with temperance, which here, I conceive, is that grace, whereby the Christian, as master of his own house, so orders his affections, like servants, to reason and faith, that they do not regularly move, or inordinately lash out into desires of, cares for, or joy in the creature comforts of this life, without which Satan will be too hard for thee.

An impatient soul in affliction is a bedlam in chains,

Patience enrageth indeed the wicked, but meekens the saints.

You don't say much," she said, "and you're careful about what you do say. That is good. Stay that way. It will keep you alive.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Those words you want to say right now? Don't say them." He smiled and cuffed my cheek with something close to real affection. "And that, my friend, is the secret to living a long life.

Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Abstinence is approved of God.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.