Idle Quote by Samuel Smiles

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means…

— Samuel Smiles

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The law is like apparel, which alters with the time

— John Dodderidge

In general, laws are tailored to suit the needs of the ones making them.

— Mariana Fulger

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes…

— Tracey Gold

Either the law exists, or it does not.

— Andre Norton

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

— Mark Twain

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

— Thomas Jefferson

“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so…

— Marcus Garvey

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to…

— Samuel Butler

You can't legislate sobriety.

— Robert Zemeckis