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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. -- Frances E. Willard
Health consists with temperance alone. -- Alexander Pope
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. -- Thomas Aquinas
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. -- Philip Sidney
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. -- Joseph Addison
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. -- Samuel Smiles
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. -- Charles Kingsley
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. -- Arthur Helps
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. -- C. S. Lewis
Abstinence is easier than temperance. -- Seneca the Younger
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. -- Aristotle
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. -- Mark Twain
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. -- William Shakespeare
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. -- Samuel Johnson
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. -- William Shakespeare
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st. -- John Milton
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. -- Rumi
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all. -- Larry MacPhail
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. -- Stephen Fry
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue. -- George Mason
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares. -- George Crabbe
If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd. -- John Milton
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. -- Robert E. Lee
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. -- William Cowper
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. -- Maureen Forrester
O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. -- John Milton
Temperance is love in training. -- Dwight L. Moody
Temperance adds zest to pleasure. -- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Temperance is the nurse of chastity. -- William Wycherley
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. -- Benjamin Haydon
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced. -- C. A. Bartol
Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer. -- Wes Fesler
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. -- Aristotle
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. -- Saint Augustine
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. -- Samuel Johnson
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. -- Jeremy Taylor
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. -- Robert A. Burton
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. -- Gautama Buddha
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body. -- Benjamin Franklin
Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant. -- H. L. Mencken
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. -- Plato
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. -- Billy Sunday
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. -- Margaret Cavendish
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. -- William Lyon Mackenzie
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. -- John Burns
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry. -- Billy Graham
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election. -- Billy Sunday
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. -- Lord Chesterfield
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story. -- Terence Winter
That cardinal virtue, temperance. -- Edmund Burke
Abstinence is easier than temperance -- Seneca
Abstinence is the surety of temperance -- Plato
Abstinence is the surety of temperance. -- Plato
For me, temperance is essential to good work. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. -- Joseph Joubert
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice. -- Epicurus
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult -- Samuel Johnson
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. -- Francis Bacon
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. -- Joseph Addison
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. -- Juvenal
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. -- Horace Mann
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. -- Horace Mann
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. -- Joseph Addison
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. -- Michel de Montaigne
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. -- John Paul II
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. -- John Paul II
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. -- John Paul II
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. -- Benjamin Whichcote
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is. -- William Shakespeare
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. -- William Lyon Mackenzie
I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels. -- Artemas Ward
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. -- Vance Havner
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. -- Aristotle
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. -- Benjamin Franklin
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. -- Benjamin Franklin
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. -- Samuel Johnson
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls. -- Socrates
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. -- John Tillotson
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it. -- Dan Rice
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate... -- Meredith L. Young-Sowers
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. -- Cristobal Balenciaga
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. -- Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. -- Rajneesh
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed. -- Seneca the Younger
He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress. -- Max Muller
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- Francis Atterbury
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed. -- J. Reuben Clark
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. -- Martin Seligman
You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray. -- Silouan the Athonite
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. -- Socrates
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. -- Mark Twain
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. -- Ephrem the Syrian
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. -- Ephrem the Syrian
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death? -- Marcus Aurelius
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church? -- Frances E. Willard
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love. -- David O. McKay
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry. -- Billy Graham

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