Top 30 Intemperate Quotes
#1. I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.
Richard Dawkins
#2. I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
Harriet Martineau
#3. Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Mark Twain
#4. With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
Charles Kennedy
#5. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke
#6. When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
George D. Prentice
#8. He'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world would not find them out
Dennis Lehane
#9. The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.
John Calvin
#10. Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
Edmund Burke
#11. A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#12. The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.
James Madison
#13. He was very intemperate, and could not write until he had quickened his thoughts with large draughts of rum and water; that he was, in short, a bad character, and not fit to be placed in such a situation.
John Adams
#14. Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
Hannah More
#15. Rachel's way was not so easy. When she lost her fat she became very pretty and quite fast. She smoked and drank and probably fornicated and the abyss that opens up before a pretty and an intemperate young woman is unfathomable.
John Cheever
#16. I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
Jean Rhys
#17. Many Americans do not understand why we are regarded with such suspicion by so many others around the world and the anger of the moment makes public discussion of central problems frequently intemperate.
Francis George
#18. Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.
Plutarch
#19. Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.
Huey Long
#20. Lord, soften his arrogance and temper and intemperate habits. Make him a man after Your own heart . . . because somehow, against my will and surely Yours, he's stolen mine.
Laura Frantz
#21. A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#22. How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?
Francine Rivers
#23. There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Alan Bleasdale
#24. An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#25. Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
Francis Quarles
#26. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
Roger L'Estrange
#27. Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.
Laurence Sterne
#29. False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.
Jerome Groopman
#30. The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
Aristotle.
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