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Health and liberty Attend on these bare meals; if all were blest With such a temperance, what man would fawn, Or to his belly sell his liberty? There would be then no slaves, no sycophants At great men's tables. - Thomas May With riotous banquets, sicknesses came in, When death 'gan muster all his dismal band Of pale diseases. - Thomas May If thou well observe The rule of--not too much,--by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return: So may's thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop, Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd; in death mature. - John Milton If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd. - John Milton, Comus (l. 720) Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance. - John Milton, Comus (l. 762) Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 531) The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 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. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Philosophy, religious solitude And labour wait on temperance; in these is desire bounded; they instruct the mind's And body's action. - Nabb Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. - Theodore Parker A Spartan, being asked why his people drank so little, replied: "That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us." - Plutarch Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought. - John Ruskin Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, v) Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii) Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i) Great men should drink with harness on their throats. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors. - Sydney Smith 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. - Socrates Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion. - Bishop Robert South There is hardly any noble quantity or endowment of the mind but must own temperance, either for its parent or its nurse. - Bishop Robert South Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. - Jeremy Taylor O temperance, thou fortune without envy; thou universal medicine of life, that clears the head and cleanses the blood, eases the stomach, strengthens the nerves, and perfects digestion. - Sir William Temple Temperance, that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy, that gives indolence of body with an equality of mind; the best guardian of youth and support of old age; the precept of reason as well as religion, and physician of the soul as well as the body; the tutelar goddess of health and universal medicine of life. - Sir William Temple The universal medicine of life. - Sir William Temple Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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