Top 171 Temperance Quotes & Sayings

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

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Temperance is love in training.

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

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

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.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.

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

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

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

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.