Quotes About Temperance

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it." She

Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked.

You don't have to chase every bird that you see.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Courtesy "Doth not behave itself unseemly." Unselfishness "Seeketh not its own." Good temper "Is not provoked." Guilelessness "Taketh not account of evil." Sincerity "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.

Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many when sober have art enough to conceal.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Don't steal sweet rolls.

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess

There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.