Intemperance Quotes - Page 2

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

  Francis Quarles

  Vices, Way, Qualified

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.174

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• Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Beer, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179

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• Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

  Pierre Charron

  Wise, Men, Mind

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• Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Passion, Perfect, Desire

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1993). “Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates”

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• Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Suicide, Men, Body

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• Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

  George Herbert

  Pain, Wine, Body

  George Herbert (1809). “Herbert's Poems: with his Country Parson. A new edition to which is prefixed, the life of the author; from I. Walton”, p.78

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• It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

  Francis Atterbury

  Wise, Men, Order

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• What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

  Horace

  Secret, Battle, Doe

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• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Laurence Sterne

  Suffering, One Day, Three

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.146

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• Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Soul, Sheets

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt (p.115), 1890.

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• If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

  Phillips Brooks

  Country, Would Be, Poverty

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• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Alcohol, Brain

  1603-4 Cassio, of wine. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.283-5.

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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Mind

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• Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Soul, Littles

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.621

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• Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

  Aldous Huxley

  Tired, Lust, Vices

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• 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.

  Saint Basil

  Laughter, Soul, Use

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• Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Heart, Talking, Havoc

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• Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

  Paul Tournier

  Blue, Years, Vitality

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Drunk, Mad, Sobriety

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.167

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• A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Body, Youth

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• Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

  Plutarch

  Luxury, Mind, Use

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  James Madison

  Character, Passion, Order

  James Madison, John Jay (1901). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”

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