Quotes About Temperance

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

Want to come one step closer to wisdom? Then you have to train yourself unconditionally in forbearance.

One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us

Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

There are moments when you have to have a cool head and keep a standard.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.