Temperance Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

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

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

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

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

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

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

Sobriety is love of health,
or inability to eat much.

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.

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

Temperance is love in training.

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

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

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.

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

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

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

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

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.