Quotes About Temperance

to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)

The man lived like a monk. And made love like a sinner.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?

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

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart's blood should run cold.

Plunge a heated sword in oil, and any small flaw will turn in to a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.

don't ever let anger do your talking for you!

It is struggle that strengthens and makes us aware, that tempers the spirit and opens the mind's eye.

These 21st-century 'teavangelicals,' who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were concerned with societal ills such as temperance, slavery, the rise of industrialisation and suffrage.

I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.

There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't think I said anything with venom. If you can express yourself without anger and make it as palatable as you can, that's what you do.