Temperance Quotes

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

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

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

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

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

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

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

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

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

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

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

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?

Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

Discipline is needed in our temperance.

The first draught serveth for health the second for pleasure the third for shame and the fourth for madness.

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

Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.