Quotes About Temperance

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

You can get suckered into believing you have to always be attacking with the bat, ball or fielding positions. But Test cricket is not always like that. There are times when it is a bit slow paced and even a bit boring.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

I don't celebrate really crazy.

I didn't do that many crazy things.

I don't do crazy things - I just don't.

I've always felt that when I've been successful in red-ball cricket it has been because I've left the ball well and sometimes in cricket the shots you don't play are more important than the ones you do.

It takes an awful lot to get me cross.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

I hardly use cuss words.

No flipping tables over any more for me.

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Patience is passion tamed.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

Thomas à Kempis writes, "It is easier to be silent altogether than to speak with moderation."4

Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it. —JOHN WESLEY

I'm always careful. It's whiskey that isn't careful.

To want any one thing too much is barbaric.

Don't get excited," said Muggle-Wump.