Temperance Quotations

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

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.

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.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

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

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.

It is my hope that Judge Roberts would play a role similar to Justice O'Connor's on the court and bring with him a voice defined by temperance and open-mindedness,

Temperance is love in training.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

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.

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

I refer to temperance in the use of alcoholic beverages as a contribution to a total war effort. Here is a way in which everyone in Canada can help.

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

It's an unfortunate consequence of American history. Gambling is exactly like demon rum was 75 years ago when the temperance movement was agitating. Once you demonize something, it becomes difficult to look at it in any rational way.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show that she would never take a drink, not even brandy if she were dying. Of course by temperance they all mean the opposite - total abstinence.

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.