Quotes About Temperance

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

There are two things that should be avoided; the deadly upas tree and soda water. The latter will make you puffy and poddy.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

When wine enters modesty departs.

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.

A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.

Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man.

Wine has drowned more men than the sea.

I need to do some social distancing from the refrigerator.

Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness.

I suspicion there are a few things ye try hard to keep under control." "Och, aye. I dinnae purr. Tis too cursed unmonly," he drawled as he walked away. Cathal laughed and continued on his way to collect his wife.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

Cully thought. And she sounded absolutely convinced of everything she said. You see, Augusta went on, I've been sent here by the Christian Ladies Temperance Society. I'm bringing their message to Abilene. Joshua and Sister Lorraine stared in surprise.

A soft answer turns away wrath and a gentle tongue is the tree of life, but a snarky Twitter Bible only leads to trouble.

The less said the better.

She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.

There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

There should be moderation in everything.