Quotes of Temperance - somelinesforyou

“ Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ”

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Vance Havner

“ Everything in moderation — including moderation. ”

- Harvey Steiman

“ Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ There's no evidence not to drink in moderation, but we are not ready to be advocating this either. ”

- Robert Adams

“ We're not asking anybody here to stop what you're doing. We're asking you to do what you're doing in moderation. There's a scripture that says let your moderation be known unto all men. ”

- James Jones

“ You will go most safely in the middle. ”

- Ovid

“ I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9. ”

- Silvio Berlusconi

“ Against Diseases here, the strongest Fence, Is the defensive Virtue, Abstinence. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. ”

- Bible

“ Praising the lean and sallow abstinence. ”

- John Milton

“ We're about moderation. ”

- Jenny Craig

“ The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. ”

- Wilhelm Reich

“ Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Joy, temperance, and repose,Slam the door on the doctor's nose. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ 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

“ 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

“ Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Health consists with temperance alone. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness. ”

- Unknown

“ Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ Temperance is a bridle of gold. ”

- Unknown

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

- Buddha

“ Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ”

- Frances E. Willard

“ The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God. ”

- William Law
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