Quotes About Temperance

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Few men can afford to be angry.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.