Quotes About Temperance

Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.

A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

If there is one thing that marks families with money over the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

In this routine, the introverted Jefferson manages his emotions.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

I don't know how many bands I saw who would try to wreck a hotel room, but I never wrecked a hotel room in my life! If I'm gonna sit there and throw a TV out the window... if it's a good TV, maybe I should just take it home.

Damn the human stomach, this fat betrayor of ideals

When it comes to fake food, I'm like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult." In other words, I can give something up altogether, but I can't indulge occasionally.

Underreact to a problem

Like Dr. Johnson, I'm an Abstainer: I find it far easier to give up something altogether than to indulge moderately. And this distinction has profound implications for habits.

When it comes to fake food, I'm like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?

I won't touch alcohol.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I stick to myself now on tours. I don't go out party, drink, smoke, do drugs. It's a dry bus. No one is allowed to bring drinks on the bus.

While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

These short tracks are about patience. You have to show patience.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.