Quotes About Temperance

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

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

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

The better part of valour is discretion.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Nothing in excess.

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.

Haste is of the Devil.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet - completely sober.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?