Quotes About Temperance

Oh, I don't really celebrate too much.

I am the last person to start celebrating.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.

My ego has been in check for a long time.

I stay away from alcohol and cigarettes, as I am a tee-totaller.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.

the world had gone too far in its enthusiasm for moderation and the thing had to be stopped

He reasoned that, as there was nothing he could do about his feelings, he must avoid acting on them.

A soft answer turneth away wrath." OLD TESTAMENT

Festina lente. You know what that means? Hurry slowly. Bene. He smiled. -A Good & Happy Child

God created us with emotions, and anger is one of them. Feeling the emotion of anger is not the problem. The problem is when we let our anger trigger actions that result in wrongdoing.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.