Frank Sinatra Quotes

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

The temperance movement must include all poisonous substances which create or excite unnatural appetite, and international prohibition is the goal.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

I don't drink, I don't smoke.

I think my style of play, not drinking, I think I'm a product of clean living. I don't drink, don't smoke.

I won't touch alcohol.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.