Quotes on Temperance

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

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.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

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.