Quotes of Intemperance - somelinesforyou

“ Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. ”

- Bible

“ The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence. ”

- Epictetus

“ Psychological trauma leaves its effects in a multiplicity of observances; in my case it is inebriation. ”

- Greg Evans

“ The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ There was a strong odor of alcohol at the scene and inside the vehicle. ”

- James Wilson

“ Consumption of excessive alcohol while taking pain relievers can be dangerous to your health. ”

- Michael Friedman

“ If they want students to do anything, like reading a newspaper, drinking less alcohol or visiting the library, they need to introduce them to it early. ”

- John Gardner

“ I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Water is the only drink for a wise man. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Wine is bottled poetry. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. ”

- Diogenes

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

- William Butler Yeats

“ And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ”

- Ovid

“ Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ”

- Steven Soderbergh

“ Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. ”

- Bishop Robert South

“ Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ”

- Katherine Anne Porter

“ But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. ”

- Rebecca West
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