Quotes About Temperance

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

Try, above all things to be still and to contain yourself. You always want to rush into action. Realise that a certain kind of stillness is the most perfect form of action, like a seed can wait. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not be a mere rushing on.

Todo amor, al final es moderado

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the 'kick'.

I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

I think everyone knows that I'm the type of person who can have a good time without drinking.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.