Quotes About Temperance

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

May God bless you and give you what you need because what you want will get you in trouble." Figliolo blessed himself. "The Cabrellis have always been fighters. You'll be all right.

May God bless you and give you what you need because what you want will get you in trouble.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

The philosophy of mature love is marked by an active awareness of the good and bad within each person, it is full of temperance, it resists idealization, it is free of jealousy, masochism, or obsession, it is a form of friendship with a sexual dimension, it is pleasant, peaceful, and reciprocated (and perhaps explains why most people who have known the wilder shores of desire would refuse its painlessness the title of "love").

Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.

Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.