Top Intemperance Quotes

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

Intemperance Definition

(n.) The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.

(n.) Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled eve...