Temperance Quotes

Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age. (Democritus)
Temperance. Eat not to Dulness. Drink not to Elevation. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer. View quote
Edmund Burke
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. View quote
Stephen Fry
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. View quote
Frances Willard
When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. View quote
Maureen Forrester
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. View quote
Richard Mentor Johnson
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story. View quote
Terence Winter
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. View quote
Samuel Smiles
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort. View quote
William Lyon Mackenzie King
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. View quote
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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. View quote
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. (William Lyon Mackenzie King)
In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Health consists with temperance alone. View quote
Alexander Pope
The health of the soul is to have its faculties, reason, high spirit and desire happily tempered, with the reason in command and reining in the other two, like restive horses. The special name of this health is temperance, that is σωφροσύνη or "thought-preserving,” for it creates a preservation of one of our powers, namely that of wise-thinking. View quote
Philo
There is an uneasy desire among a vast many well-disposed persons to get the fruits of the Christian Faith, without troubling themselves about the Faith itself. This is done under the sanction of Peace Societies, Temperance and Moral Reform Societies, in which the end is too often mistaken for the means. When the Almighty sent His Son on earth, it was to point out the way in which all this was to be brought about, by means of the Church; but men have so frittered away that body of divine organization, through their divisions and subdivisions, all arising from human conceit, that it is no longer regarded as the agency it was so obviously intended to be, and various contrivances are to be employed as substitutes for that which proceeded directly from the Son of God! View quote
James Fenimore Cooper