1.
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.'
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
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
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
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
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
21.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
23.
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
25.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
Billy Sunday
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