Quotes About Temperance

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

As you get older, you mellow, but there's a natural propensity to watch what you say, 'cause you learn that you want more time and space to craft what you want to say because you're less likely to want to say impetuous things, or things that aren't thought-out properly.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

People who live that long aren't impulsive. They protect a little ember and say just a little bit too cold all their lives.

Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.

I don't believe he was ever dhrunk in his life - sure he's not like a Christian at all!

It's my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. Then in another village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town. Another time they tried to go at yellocution; but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them a solid good cussing, and made them skip out.

Recuerda que en tiempos arduos hay que conservar la ecuanimidad, lo mismo que en buenos un ánimo que domina prudentemente la alegría excesiva.» Horacio, Carmina, II, 3]

Zor zamanlarda itidalini korumay?, güzel anlarda da a??r? sevincini dizginlemeyi hat?rla. -Horatius, Carmina

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

I want to stay young and pure and free, unstained by the sin of Eve.

I shall not set my desires on things of the world.