Quotes About Temperance

In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

When something good comes along, take more if it's offered except for pie. Too much pie can make you sick.

Patience was not my strong point.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

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

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.

Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

It is nothing to say that he hadn't a word to throw at a dog. He couldn't have thrown a word at a mad dog. He might have offered him one gently, or half a one, or a fragment of one; for he spoke as slowly as he walked; but he wouldn't have been rude to him, and he couldn't have been quick with him, for any earthly consideration.

Ah Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Your body is a temple, not a drive-thru.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

It is foolish to say sharp, hasty things, but 't is a deal more foolish to write 'em. When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded — and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.

Beware the fury of a patient man.