Quotes About Temperance

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Fill up the goblet, and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum....

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.

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

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

At your ageThe heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;For in my youth I never did applyHot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.

Keep a good tongue in your head.

Do not give dallianceToo much the rein.

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

I will be the pattern of all patience.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

One cool judgement is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.