Temperate Quotes

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

I'm very mild-tempered. I like to think about what I do before I do it.

I don't drink at all.

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

August is a wicked month.

When rich men are thus brought to regard themselves as trustees, and poor men learn to be industrious, economical, temperate, self-denying, and diligent in the acquisition of knowledge, then the deplorable strife between capital and labor, tending to destroy their fundamental, necessary, and irrefragable harmony will cease, and the world will no longer be afflicted with such unnatural industrial conflicts as we have seen during the past century...