Benjamin Franklin Quotes

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

Taste not, touch not, handle not.

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

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

Physical fitness is a farce without self-control, judgment, and discretion, which are the three qualities of mind first to be dulled by and made incompetent by the use of alcohol

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

That is one advantage of our time; in the highest office of the Reich we have the example of a simple and modest alcohol-and nicotine-free way of life

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

I didn't drink for two years.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.