Teetotalism Quotes

I never had a drink at all till I was 38. I'm just not a drinker. I go days without drinking.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

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

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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

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

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

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

I take care of my skin, and I'm a teetotaller.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

I don't drink alcohol. I only really drink water.

I don't drink at all.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

I never drink... wine.

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

I never drink alcohol.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

I've never had a sip of alcohol.

Taste not, touch not, handle not.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.