Quotes About Temperance

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.

I've never been drunk. I've never even had a beer.

He drank no hard liquor but loved wine, taking perhaps three glasses a day.42 He did not smoke. When he received gifts of Havana cigars from well-wishers, he passed them along to friends.43

political life in a position such as this is one long strain on the temper, one long acceptance of the second best, one long experiment of checking one's impulses with an iron hand and learning to subordinate one's own desires to what some hundreds of associates can be forced or cajoled or led into desiring.

She summarized: "So. Don't get shitfaced, don't fist her ass, enjoy.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

To be able to do and to abstain from doing, is to be twice able.

I don't have to blow up everything I see... I just like to.

Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

the poet William Blake wrote in his 'Proverbs of Hell' that 'The road of excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom', he wasn't joking?

Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Patience was not my strong point.

My favorite ability in a player is the combination of aggressiveness and patience.