Quotes About Temperance

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"

A woman's sexual modesty puts her, significantly, in a position to be the ultimate worldly arbiter of a man's worth—"Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine," as the temperance movement's slogan had it. Since respect for her modesty gave her the freedom to withhold affection, so to speak, until a virtuous man came around, men were in turn inspired to become worthy of her. Whether the cause was liquor or

Yo nunca quiero desear nada después de ver el daño que acarrea el deseo

alcohol consumption fell sharply at the beginning of Prohibition, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level," and by the time of Repeal had risen "to about 60–70 percent of its pre-Prohibition level.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.

The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.

Don't be quick to get angry, because anger is typical of fools" (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But Paul points out it is possible to be angry without sin when he says, "Be angry without sinning" (Ephesians 4:26).

Arbitrary rule frightens people. Power tempered with justice is well loved." He shrugged. "It is a gamble, but I would much sooner trust the Four together, and in public, than any one of them alone, in private." Oh

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

By the late 1830s, Indianapolis reformers were boasting of sober Fourth of July celebrations, though some of Fort Wayne's leading citizens, including directors of the branch bank and members of the local temperance society, were carried home drunk on election day in 1836.

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

A man should drink in moderation be sensible or silent.                         Hávamál

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite." Frank

Though Lincoln did not drink, smoke tobacco, use profane language, or engage in games of chance, he never condescended to those who did. On the contrary, when he had addressed the Springfield Temperance Society at the height of the temperance crusade, he had insisted that "such of us as have never fallen victims, have been spared more from the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have.

a patient man is better than a warrior.

Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.

J. P. Morgan once said, "If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.