Intemperate Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
— Edmund Burke
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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
— Mark Twain
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The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden…
— James Madison
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It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but…
— Tertullian
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I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
— Alan Bleasdale
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The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
— George D. Prentice
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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
— Aristotle
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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
— Edmund Burke
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I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
— Jean Rhys
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The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which…
— Lord Byron
Who Wrote These Intemperate Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Intemperate Quotes as follows: