Quotes About Temperance

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Recklessness, spontaneity didn't really suit her, she couldn't carry if off, the results were never what she hoped for.

Every generation has its hottest of all hot-button issues, the issue that becomes the litmus test of everyone's orthodoxy and provokes conflicts sometimes leading to schism. In earlier generations it was slavery, or segregation, or apartheid, or Nazism, or abortion, or temperance, or Sabbath or tongue-speaking

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

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

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face

Beware of the anger of a patient man.

when asked his philosophy of life, he replied, "Moderation in all things.

Temperance pursed her lips, her eyes firmly fixed on the growing mound of chopped turnip roots. "Do you think anyone really likes turnips?" "Temperance…" Temperance poked the tip of her knife into a white cube and held it up. "They are very filling, of course, but really, when was the last time you heard someone say, 'Oh, I'm so very fond of turnips'?

We ought to be making North some now," he said with the utmost restraint.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

What you really enjoy in an alcoholic drink is not the drink itself, but the ending of the irritation of wanting that drink. Non-drinkers enjoy that all the time.

real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

One of the things that I was taught in Portland is 'Never too high, never too low.'

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.