Quotes About Temperance

I drank only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when others carried but one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer!

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

Perhaps I was too saucy

made the greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.

134. Give no Advantage in Argument, nor lose any that is offered. This is a Benefit which arises from Temper.

Never chide for Anger, but Instruction. 290. He that corrects out of Passion, raises Revenge sooner than Repentance.

while enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

As the ones human beings are extreamly apt to get under the influence of alcohol, and, while so, are very quarrelsome and disorderly, we strictly forbad the selling any liquor to them;

Tweeting is like doing drugs. Seems like fun, but you just end up regretting it afterward.

I've never done a drug. I don't drink. I refuse to alter my mind in any way.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I am not an aggressive person. I am a disciplined, chilled, and relaxed guy.

Usually I am not overexcited about hits or down in the dumps for flops. I maintain a degree of equilibrium.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

I'm one of the most humble people you'll probably ever meet.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

Just one olive, though

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.