Quotes About Temperance

You really ought to try reining in those hormones of yours. It's a radical concept for you, I'm sure, but just as a change of pace.

John Berryman, put it, "Something has been said for sobriety, but very little.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.

I feel that so many problems in my life may have been prevented had I been more contained.

I'm best in small doses, believe me.

Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry

Surely it's not too much to ask a little patience

Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course. The best workers and most successful men are they who are most moderate in eating and drinking. By taking enough nourishment, but not too much, they attain the maximum physical and mental fitness. Beings thus well-equipped by moderation, they are enabled to vigorously and joyfully fight the battle of life.

INTEMPERANCE.

Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness

moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...

And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.

Wisdom lies in moderating mere impressions

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

This is the hardest time, Starling. Use this time and it will temper you. Now's the hardest test - not letting rage and frustration keep you from thinking. It's the core of whether you can command or not. Waste and stupidity will get you the worst.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Never spend your money before you have it.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.