Quotes About Temperance

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Nothing too much.

Nihil nimis [Nothing in excess].

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Being prudent does not mean being fearful.

Going to a pub when you're not drinking is pretty boring.

I don't drink at home. I don't go to the pub or clubs.

I don't go to pubs.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.

The last thing I'm trying to do is trying to look to go out into a fight. Ask anybody who knows me, I'm not the first guy to go around and just start pushing people.

I never get too over-confident, or too down. I just go with the flow.

I don't go flying into tackles and running around 100 mph. That's just not me.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

I just have never been a drinker. No matter how much I try I just can't stand the taste of it or the way it makes me feel out of control, which is a no-go for an anxiety-ridden control freak like me.

I can't let my frustration get the best of me.

Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well.

Steel is a normal, hard, polished substance. But if you put it in a hot fire it will become red, soft, and not to be handled. If you put it in a fire still more hot it will drip away. It was like that with Leonora. She was made for normal circumstances.

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger.

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN