Brigham Young Quotes

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.

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

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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 am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

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

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

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

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

The exclusion of wine from the list of refreshments has turned out exceedingly well. There is a great deal of dissipation here [in Washington DC] At the reception of the British Minister, and that of the Mexican Minister, disgraceful things were done by young men, made reckless by too much wine. Hence the necessity of our course is obvious, and is commended in unexpected quarters. Many of the foreign gentlemen speak of it with approval. We shall stick to it.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

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.