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Tag Name "Temperance" (136)

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Temperance adds zest to pleasure.
Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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I would fain keep sober always and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
Walter Raleigh
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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
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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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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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
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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
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
Vance Havner
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
William Penn
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Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
William Shakespeare
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Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.
William Shakespeare
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
Abraham Lincoln
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
Abraham Lincoln
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.
William Shakespeare
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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
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Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Joseph Addison
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