Quotes About Temperance

A great finisher needs to keep a lid on his emotions

Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances. —Thomas Jefferson

Protect me from what I want.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. 

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Don't rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

Be Good. But don't be a fool.

Never take drugs before Marmalade

In an argument the best weapon to hold is your tongue.

It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

What is called gluttony in one man is a healthy appetite in someone else.

13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliché.)