Intemperance Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

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… — William Faulkner
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… — Abraham Lincoln
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne
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… — Walter Savage Landor
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. — Voltaire
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a… — James Madison
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man… — Seneca the Younger
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. — Abraham Lincoln
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free — Amelia Bloomer
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to — Phillips Brooks
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… — Rabindranath Tagore
Intemperance is the only vulgarity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. — William Shakespeare
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… — George Herbert

Who Wrote These Intemperance Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 26 Intemperance Quotes as follows: