Quotes
Quotes about Temperance
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
Health consists with Temperance alone.
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
