Intemperance Quotes

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Mackenzie King
- Wish
- Accidents
- Reduction
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

William Shakespeare
- Fall
- Kings
- Tyranny

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

Abraham Lincoln
- Sacrifice
- Blood
- Relative
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Jonathan Swift
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Douglas Jerrold
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Abraham Lincoln
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free.

Amelia Bloomer
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

Thomas Hobbes