15+ Sir William Temple Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Sir William Temple quotes and sayings.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. — Sir William Temple

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. — Sir William Temple

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. — Sir William Temple

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. — Sir William Temple

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. — Sir William Temple

God has given us these opportunities for tranquility. — Sir William Temple

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. — Sir William Temple

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — Sir William Temple

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies. — Sir William Temple

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. — Sir William Temple

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. — Sir William Temple

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed — Sir William Temple

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. — Sir William Temple

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. — Sir William Temple

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. — Sir William Temple