Temperance Quotes

“Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.”

“For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.”

“Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.”

“I am sure,Though you can guess what temperance should be,You know not what it is.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”

“Intemperance is the only vulgarity.”

“A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.”

“Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.”

“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.”

“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”

“Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.”

“There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.”

“Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.”

“Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.”

“Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.”

“Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.”

“No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.”

“I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.”

“A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.”

“A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]”

“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.”

“A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.”

“By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.”