Quotes About Temperance

It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

If a soft answer turneth away wrath, maybe no answer stirreth wrath up.

Sometimes the most dangerous enemy is a hasty heart," he said softly.

An ancient critic spoke of him as "moderate to excess.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

At what point does forbearance cease to be a virtue and become a weakness?)

Nothing is so inconsistent with the life of any Christian as overindulgence. —The Rule of Benedict