Top Temperance Quotes
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Frances E. Willard
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
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.
Lord Chesterfield
Margaret Cavendish 
Richard Mentor Johnson 
Billy Sunday 
Charles Kingsley 
William Lyon Mackenzie King 
Alexander Pope 
Samuel Smiles 
C. S. Lewis All Temperance Quotes
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King 
71% of people like this quote
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
64% of people like this quote
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Frances E. Willard
57% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
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.
Lord Chesterfield
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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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
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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