Quotes About Temperance

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is hard to provide and cook so simple and clean a diet as will not offend the imagination; but this, I think, is to be fed when we feed the body; they should both sit down at the same table. Yet perhaps this may be done. The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment on your dish, and it will poison you.

Quem percebe o verdadeiro sabor do alimento nunca será um glutão; quem não o percebe não pode deixar de sê-lo

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.

I don't really yell at people.

First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling.

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Protect me from what I want.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

The mantra becomes" M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947