Quotes About Temperance

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

If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.

The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue, and the greatest pleasure, one that moves orderly; for if you speak evil, you yourself will soon be worse spoken of.

Never drink before sunset; Never drink more than 3 days in a row.

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.

Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth—including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way through brutal indulgence.

Admiral Nimitz never raised his voice and I never heard him curse during the many years I served with him," wrote Lamar.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

Self-control is true power.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

I pray that doubt comes to you, that it tempers you with its wisdom. Those heroes in our legends, Karsa Orlong, they were terrible, they were monsters, for they were strangers to uncertainty

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.