Quotes about Temperance
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
— Cicero
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
— Cicero
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
— Confucius
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
— Euripides
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
— Publilius Syrus
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
— Henry David Thoreau
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
— Marcus Aurelius
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
— Cicero
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
— Billy Graham
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
— Aristotle
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
— Barbara Johnson