Temperance Quotes - Page 9

• By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

  John Evelyn

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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• It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Religious, Educational, Character

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• Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

  Samuel Johnson

  Integrity, Parent, Liberty

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.164

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• All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

  Aristotle

  Children, Animal, Brave

  Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
  Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
  An age that melts with unperceived decay,
  And glides in modest Innocence away

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Decay, Innocence

  Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (1981). “Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Passion, Soul, Foundation

  Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.306

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• I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drinking, Degrees, Sober

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Exercise, Opportunity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.177, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Pride, Opposites

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• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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• Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Opposites, Soul

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• Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Ocean, Trends, Tides

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