Genghis Khan Quotes

If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.

I drink no more than a sponge.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

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

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

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

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

I don't really party. I'll occasionally have a drink.

I don't drink at all.

I don't like drinking, basically.

I didn't even drink in college.

I didn't drink for two years.

I don't even drink.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.