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Temperance Quotes

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

William Shakespeare
Speak Less, Temperance, Shows
William Shakespeare, Alfred Leslie Rowse (1984). “King Lear: modern text with introduction”, Univ Pr of Amer

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Socrates
Differences, Embrace, Temperance

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Mark Twain
Causes, Moderation, Temperance
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.242, Courier Corporation

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

Amelia Bloomer
Prejudice, Injustice, Intemperance

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Saint Augustine
Desire, Disposition, Temperance

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Benjamin Haydon
Temperance
Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.257

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exercise, Age, Temperance
On Old Age X.34

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

C. A. Bartol
Virtue, Temperance

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

Abraham Lincoln
Despair, Temperance, Teach
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

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
Numbers, Wish, Temperance

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Plato
Abstinence, Temperance
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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

John Bartholomew Gough
Cups, Temperance, Abandon

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Use, Temperance, Temperament
Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sobriety, Inability, Temperance

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

William Shakespeare
Disease, Temperance, Appliances
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.276

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

Michel de Montaigne
Volume, Stomach, Temperance

Temperance is love in training.

Dwight L. Moody
Training, Temperance
Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Michel de Montaigne
Sensuality, Temperance, Seasoning

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

John Bartholomew Gough
Soul, Sheets, Intemperance
"Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt (p.115), 1890.

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

Horace Mann
Failing, Temperance, Ifs

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Billy Sunday
Toes, Republican, Temperance
Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

Health consists with temperance alone.

Alexander Pope
Health, Temperance
Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.128

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

William Wycherley
Nurse, Temperance, Chastity
William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.20

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

William Shakespeare
Grace, Body, Temperance
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [57]

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Walter Savage Landor
Power, Compassion, Intemperance
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.70

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