Top Temperance Quotes

Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Temperance Definition

(v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

(v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.

(v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

I love you, she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real. I love you, and I thought you were dead. I couldn't bear it. I thought I would die too....

Discipline is needed in our temperance.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?

Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

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