Intemperance Quotes

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.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.

I like extremes.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

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.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

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

Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man [for public office], to an intemperate one; still I do not make my vote depend absolutely upon the question of whether a candidate does or does not taste liquor.

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

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.