Quotes About Temperance

If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.

Never display emotion.

Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: They distract the mind from food! You

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Subdue your melodramatic fancies", said Tommy.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

No, I never drink beer. I've never had a pint of lager in my life.

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

It would be against my nature if I shouted or banged the walls.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Self-command is the main elegance.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

With Salman, I need to keep myself a little calm but that wouldn't stop me from saying what I want to.

I think people always want candy, whether you're a kid or an adult.

Certain times, I'll choose my words very carefully and maybe come off a little more boring.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

I am not the sort of character to get carried away.

Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.