Quotes About Temperance

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Because according to my father, many teachers, and quite a few anger-management counselors, I seem to lack that little internal device that stops things that are best left unsaid from being said.

Patience is never served on the platter...

Disciplined inaction.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

when your tongue is sharp enough to slice a rock. How

The practice does lose its charm if overused—

I think I've finally learned how to keep this big mouth shut.

Will you sit down and stop shouting?" she asked. "I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city" (RSV).

Proverbs 16:32, which says that mightier is the man who can control his temper than the man who can conquer a city.

It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get." One may say that Heraclitus values power obtained through self-mastery, and despises the passions that distract men from their central ambitions.

Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history.

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.