Quotes About Temperance

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

True happiness springs from moderation.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.