Temperance is a bridle of gold. [ Burton ]

Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. [ Longfellow ]

Temperance is the nurse of chastity. [ Wycherley ]

Health consists with temperance alone. [ Pope ]

Abstinence is the surety of temperance. [ Plato ]

The common ingredients of health and long life are:
Great temperance, open air,
Easy labor, little care. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man. [ Rousseau ]

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow. [ Dodsley ]

Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. [ William Shakespeare ]

Temperance is the love of health - or the inability to eat or drink much. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Temperance, employment, and a cheerful spirit, are the great preservers of health. [ Proverb ]

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. [ Addison ]

Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. [ Buddha ]

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

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

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, and cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising, as a means of health and happiness. [ Timothy Flint ]

To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue. [ Bacon ]

With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians. [ A. B. Alcott ]

There are treasures laid up in the heart - treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death, when he leaves this world. [ Buddhist Scriptures ]

Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. [ South ]

The richest endowments of the mind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature. [ Voltaire ]

Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]