Intemperance Quotes - Page 2

• Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

  Richard Baxter

  Soul, Misery, Gods Will

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of Richard Baxter: with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by William Orme”, p.169

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• He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

  George Herbert

  Veins, Slides, Kind

  "The Temple". Poems by George Herbert, The Church Porch, Stanza 6, 1633.

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• 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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• 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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• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Wine, Men

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

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

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

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• To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fool, Beast

  William Shakespeare (1976). “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice”, p.38, Heinemann

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• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sacrifice, Blood, Generosity

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.49, Stanford University Press

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• I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Kissing, Air

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.130, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

  William Faulkner

  Men, White Man, Justice

  The Bear pt. 4 (1932)

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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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• A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.

  John Jortin

  Men, Luxury, Violence

  John Jortin (1787). “Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...”, p.75

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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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• All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

  Francis Bacon

  Race, Earth, Crime

  "Temperance sermons, delivered in response to an invitation of the National temperance society and publication house". Book by National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873.

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• 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.

  Ellen G. White

  Drinking, Mind, Suffering

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.968, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

  Plutarch

  Extravagance, Poverty, Poor

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• Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

  Walter Scott

  Drinking, Greatness, Kind

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