Quotes About Temperance

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

Selon Chondler, conclut-il, il n'existe qu'une seule vertu : la modération. Encore ne faut-il pas la pratiquer avec excès.

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?

Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41)

What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; Too swift as tardy as too slow.

That which in mean men we entitle patience Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.

By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.

The French have a saying – is it the French? I don't know, I believe so – there is a saying that you do not put a boiling kettle upon the fire. You put cold water in the kettle and allow it to warm. So with marriage.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.

more than is wise or philosophic; but I contain myself, when nothing is to be gained by giving way.

No, jak tam? Co tam? Wódka grzeje, wódka chÅ'odzi, wódka nigdy nie zaszkodzi!

What good have you to offer, or what do you know of pleasure, you who refuse to do anything with a view of either? You don't even wait for the desire for what is pleasant: you stuff yourself with everything before you want it, eating before you are hungry and drinking before you are thirsty.

In my opinion, however, disasters such as these teach men this lesson with regard to anger: one ought not to punish even a slave in anger; for masters who have lost their tempers often do more harm to themselves than they inflict; but in dealing with enemies it is utterly and entirely wrong to launch an attack under the influence of anger and without deliberation. Anger does not look ahead, whereas deliberation is just as concerned with avoiding harm oneself as with inflicting it on the enemy.