Quotes About Temperance

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

I don't night-club, don't get into fights or scandals, don't own a yacht, don't play the horses, don't wear plaid overcoats, don't go to Hollywood parties, don't own a motorcycle, don't run back and forth to New York, don't go in for politics.

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body.

No, thanks,' said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.

The belly rules the mind.

Sexual desire and anger shall not seduce you, and the dog of greed shall depart.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

For this reason, temperance was an important component in the Progressive movement's effort to improve the lives of the working class.

Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

If alcohol fuels our Dionysian tendencies, caffeine nurtures the Apollonian.

It is said that members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union would relax at the end of a day spent crusading against alcohol with their cherished "women's tonics," preparations whose active ingredient was laudanum—opium.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't have to overuse something.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

I do not consume alcohol. You won't find a single picture that shows me drinking.