Intemperance Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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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…
— William Faulkner
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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…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
— Voltaire
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Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
— Amelia Bloomer
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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
— Phillips Brooks
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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…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
— Horace
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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
— William Shakespeare
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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…
— George Herbert
Who Wrote These Intemperance Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Intemperance Quotes as follows: