Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“To see her is a picture— To hear her is a tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. — Cyril Tourneur Copy Share Image
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
