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