Intemperance Quotes - Page 3

• Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Power, Compassion, Progeny

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.70

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• Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Children, Sobriety, Adults

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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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• Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Order, Use, Affection

  "Holy Lining", Chapter II, Part 2 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 398-399), 1922.

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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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• ... 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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• Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Reading

  William Law (1802). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend”, p.27

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Taken, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.90, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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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• Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

  Plutarch

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

  Jonathan Swift

  Green, Trunks, Withered

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vulgarity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Disease And Death, Causes, Eating

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.119, Applewood Books

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Grieving, Sacred

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.279

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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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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• The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

  Amelia Bloomer

  Prejudice, Injustice, Emancipation

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