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Temperance Quotes

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Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
William Shakespeare

'Let your actions speak louder than words, and keep wisdom close to the chest.'
Authors on Temperance Quotes: William Shakespeare Michel de Montaigne Francois de La Rochefoucauld Edmund Burke Abraham Lincoln John Bartholomew Gough Marcus Tullius Cicero William Lyon Mackenzie King Benjamin Haydon Joseph Joubert Geoffrey Chaucer Dwight L. Moody William Wycherley Billy Sunday Horace Mann Henry David Thoreau C. A. Bartol Saint Augustine Alexander Pope Mark Twain Plato Socrates
2.
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

3.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Mark Twain

4.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
Saint Augustine

5.
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
Benjamin Haydon

6.
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

7.
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
C. A. Bartol

8.
Teach hope to all, despair to none.
Abraham Lincoln

9.
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

10.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
John Bartholomew Gough

11.
Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
Plato

12.
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
Geoffrey Chaucer

13.
Sobriety is love of health,
or inability to eat much.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

14.
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

15.
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.
William Shakespeare

16.
Temperance is love in training.
Dwight L. Moody

17.
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
Michel de Montaigne

18.
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.
Horace Mann

19.
Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope

20.
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
William Wycherley

21.
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.
Michel de Montaigne

22.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.
William Shakespeare

23.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
Billy Sunday

24.
That cardinal virtue, temperance.
Edmund Burke

25.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert

26.
Moderation resembles temperance.
We are not so unwilling to eat more,
as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

27.
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.
William Shakespeare

28.
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
Henry David Thoreau