Temperance Quotes:

Health consists with temperance alone.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Health, Temperance

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

- Benjamin Haydon

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

topic: Temperance

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Toes, Republican, Temperance

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

- C. A. Bartol

topic: Virtue, Temperance

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Sobriety, Inability, Temperance

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

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Use, Temperance, Temperament

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

- John Bartholomew Gough

topic: Cups, Temperance, Abandon

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Cleanliness, Elegance, Temperance

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Exercise, Age, Temperance

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

topic: Numbers, Wish, Temperance, Intemperance

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

- William Wycherley

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

topic: Nurse, Temperance, Chastity

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

topic: Differences, Embrace, Temperance

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Despair, Temperance, Teach

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Self Harm, Moderation, Temperance

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

- Plato

source: 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”

topic: Abstinence, Temperance

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

- Mark Twain

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

topic: Causes, Moderation, Temperance

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.274, Penguin

topic: Would Be, Temperance, Chastity

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

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Sensuality, Temperance, Seasoning

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.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.80

topic: Stones, Obedience, Temperance

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

topic: Volume, Stomach, Temperance, Cookery

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

- Horace Mann

topic: Failing, Temperance, Ifs

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Virtue, Cardinals, Temperance

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 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

topic: Disease, Temperance, Appliances

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

- Saint Augustine

topic: Desire, Disposition, Temperance

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

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Character, Should, Temperance

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [57]

topic: Grace, Body, Temperance