John Tillotson Quotes

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

Above all gentlemen, not too much zeal.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

I drink no more than a sponge.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

I don't drink at all.

I don't party. I don't drink. I don't smoke.

I've never had a sip of alcohol.