"Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink."
More Abstainer Quotes
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
- I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs… — Hermann Hesse
- Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show… — Will Rogers
- I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.