Quotes About Temperance

Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Hasel gustosamente lee su Biblia, lleno de celo como vimos todos, Come verdura fresca y papas hervidas, zanahorias y pepinos crudos. Les predica a todos la buena palabra de la temperancia, no come carne, no fuma, no bebe: así debería ser un cristiano".

I am neither an introvert nor an extrovert. I am somewhere in the middle.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm.

Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course.

Forced idleness is far worse than forced labor. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control and strength of will and content and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

But to do things right, they ought to learn to keep silent in the absence of news of significance.

Custer did not drink; he didn't have to. His emotional effusions unhinged his judgment in ways that went far beyond alcohol's ability to interfere with clear thinking.

Robinson's fierce quest for spiritual purity had been tempered by the realization that little was to be gained by arrogance and anger.

You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.

A un mono americano, un ateles, que se embriagó con coñac , nunca más se le pudo hacer que lo volviese a probar, en lo que obraba con mayor cordura que muchos hombres El Origen del Hombre

I know liquor's a good servant but a bad master.

A lot of people think it's better to go into berserker mode, but it's not actually. I'm a pretty exciting fighter without going into berserker mode.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.