abstainer Quotes

I've never been a drinker, I've never gotten into drugs ... You know, I think I have such a close family ... I think you know my sisters do enough drinking to kind of fill up the whole family.

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

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.

Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.