Quotes About Temperance

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

He only drinks when he gets depressed, ' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.

I really want to punch you right now. Maybe even break your nose." She rolled her eyes upward, seeking calm. "But I won't because I like this dress.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

The middle course is the best.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

It is better to be still than to speak when you are angry.

If you can't hold your drink, don't