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Intemperance Quotes
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return,--Get very drunk; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. (Quote by - Giuseppe Garibaldi)
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. (Quote by - Horace)
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety. (Quote by - William R. Alger)
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head. (Quote by - William Penn)
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air For breathing in their faces, beat the ground, For kissing of their feet; yet always bending Towards their project. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. (Quote by - John Dryden)
O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Of all calamities this is the greatest. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
All learned, and all drunk! (Quote by - William Cowper)
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure? (Quote by - George Herbert)