Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace Copy Share Image
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or… — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in… — William Law Copy Share Image
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image