Temperance Quotes

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. Arthur Helps

Beauty, Purity, Very

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis

Listening, Wife, Infinitely

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Doctor, Nose, Slam

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

Attitudes, Measured, Lives

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. Ezra Taft Benson

Good, Body, Vigor

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. Frances E. Willard

Moderation, Foul, Total

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. Stephen Fry

Fruit, Taste, Wickedness

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Charles Kingsley

Strength, Which, Hundred

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. Thomas Aquinas

Mind, Which, Binds

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort. William Lyon Mackenzie King

Best, Effort, According

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. William Lyon Mackenzie King

May, Against, Which

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. Philip Sidney

Health, Long Life, Air

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Fitness, Dress, Hours

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. Aristotle

Mean, Pleasures, Regard

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. Margaret Cavendish

Peace, Pleasure, Method

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people. Isabella Bird

Crystal, Purity, Before

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. John Burns

Mind, Virtues, Schoolmaster

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. Samuel Smiles

Time, Wealth, Study

Health consists with temperance alone. Alexander Pope

Health, Alone, Consists

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. William Lyon Mackenzie King

Efficiency, Deny, Advantages

I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story. Terence Winter

City, World War I, Before

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse. Ellen Key

Education, Through, Extent

I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all. Larry MacPhail

Woman, Chest, Generously

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. Richard Mentor Johnson

Deeds, Meekness, Lives

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. Billy Sunday

I Am, Republican, Am

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election. Billy Sunday

Thought, Election, Florida

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