Temperance Virtue Quotes

#1. With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook - that prissy little virtue, Temperance - for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended. - Author: Geoffrey Wood

#2. Virtue consisteth of three parts,
temperance, fortitude, and justice. - Author: Epicurus

#3. I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need. - Author: Taylor Momsen

#4. Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. - Author: Christopher Paolini

#5. News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy. - Author: Maria Bartiromo

#6. As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#7. I'm most comfortable in my bare shorts without any underwear and a T-shirt if I'm home. I definitely like to sleep naked. I don't know how girls do it with thongs. Forget that! - Author: Adam Rodriguez

#8. Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced. - Author: C. A. Bartol

#9. Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice. - Author: Francis Quarles

#10. Stop making me fall in love with you - Author: Jay McLean

#11. I can't work without my family being with me. - Author: Bethenny Frankel

#12. You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you. - Author: Tagg Romney

#13. The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude. - Author: Francis Bacon

#14. The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat. - Author: David Johansen

#15. Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love. - Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training. - Author: D.L. Moody

#17. True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love. - Author: David O. McKay

#18. Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. - Author: Jeremy Taylor

#19. Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God. - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue. - Author: George Mason

#21. Seriously, she'd been tricked into bringing him toilet paper on the crapper too many times not to know he was a little shortsighted. - Author: Debra Anastasia

#22. Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#23. A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion. - Author: Joseph Addison

#24. That cardinal virtue, temperance. - Author: Edmund Burke

#25. The first years of man must make provision for the last. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#26. There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting. - Author: Jonathan Edwards

#27. Stop it," Chance says out loud, angryraw, scornful voice that she hardly recognizes, "Jesus, just fucking stop it," but she's crying again, and her eyes burn, and she's so goddamn sick of the sound, the smell and saltbland flavor of her own useless tears. - Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan

#28. I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it. - Author: Padma Lakshmi

#29. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.
But Health consists with Temperance alone,
And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own. - Author: Alexander Pope