Quotes About Temperance

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

In my day-to-day life, I'm not that wild.

I drink Jack Daniel's. I drink tequila. But you do it in moderation.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?

So I caution you, beware of those who mock goodness and self-discipline.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

But anger can be dangerous and have unintended consequences.

When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it

Samekh is one of the 12 Simple Letters and represents the zodiacal sign of Sagittarius. TAROT TRUMP: Temperance.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effects when taken in too large quantities.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Prov. 15:1;

the sweetness of self-denial and self-control

try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else," said Jo, thinking that keeping her temper at home was a much harder task than facing a rebel or two down South.

guard your demon well, and don't let a moment's fury ruin all your life.