Quotes About Temperance

When you feel tempted to speak out of anger or frustration, think before you talk. If you're still tempted, think again.

It was hard to be moderate in immoderate times.

Temperance workers protested the economic dependence that made married women subject to drunken husbands. Organizations of women workers sought respect and higher wages for women's labor. Women's

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

High time, my girl - high time! Moderation in all things, remember. That's the plan"Let your moderation be known unto all men!"

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

anger joined with thine age, is not wisdom.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all—and yet there's something in that voice of hers….

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it. - Smokeys dad, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

You cannot play with fire.