Quotes About Intemperance

The interesting people are always immoderate.

the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

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

If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

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

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

He who laughs loudest has a high probability of being extremely inebriated.

Nobody ate much, but they did drink, which fired their anger and dimmed their judgement.

Potations pottle deep.

One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.

indulged in excess in the flowing bowl"—a polite term, in those days, for drunkenness.

She drank three giant glasses of Kool-Aid and vodka that night.

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

The just censure of society is accorded to those so inconstant and intemperate that they must take their pleasures in the unholy market of humanity that still sullies the fame of our civilization; but for the traders themselves, these human vampires who prey upon the degradation of their species, society has reserved the right of ruthless suppression.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effects when taken in too large quantities.

This is that conquest of the world and of ourselves, which has been always considered as the perfection of human nature; and this is only to be obtained by fervent prayer, steady resolutions, and frequent retirement from folly and vanity, from the cares of avarice, and the joys of intemperance, from the lulling sounds of deceitful flattery, and the tempting sight of prosperous wickedness.

Drunkenness, she had discovered

To drink this much in one session would kill even an Aberdeen harlot.