Quotes About Temperance

I've learned to keep your mouth shut even when something bad is going on. You never know how someone is going to take something you say. You have to bite the bullet.

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Se há justas razões para se encolerizar, que o faça, mas não imite a ferocidade do tigre.

Nunca se debe atacar por cólera y con prisas. Es aconsejable tomarse tiempo en la planificación y coordinación del plan.

The first temperance groups were secular and calm. Their purpose was to help men hang on to their paychecks and their dignity. But America is not a calm nation.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

We need to be able to get wired up without overheating, and disconnect without going cold.

La pereza es la madre de todos los vicios.

Erik choked back the insult he'd been on the verge of uttering. Judging by his expression, it was viler than a castor-oil purgative.

equidistante del entusiasmo y de la indiferencia y que, de tanto en tanto, por alguna exaltación modesta, se justifica.

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

The more wine I drink in moderation, the better I am.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

I'm not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.

Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.

The match losses the one who cannot control himself.

abstemiousness

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.