Prohibition Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image “We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prohibition Temptation
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Temptation is something that comes along when you're doing something you don't want to do. — Trent Williams Copy Share Image
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em… — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay… — Danny Sugerman Copy Share Image
Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement. — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image