Care Quote by Pierre Charron

“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.”

— Bohumil Hrabal

Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since…

— Jørgen Leth

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication…

— William Rounseville Alger

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best…

— Anonymous

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is…

— Plutarch

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

— Thomas Sherlock

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

— Horace

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

— John Bartholomew Gough

A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which…

— John Jortin