Anne Bronte Quotes

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

I can't do anything in moderation.

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

The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

They asked me why I don't quit drinking, I told 'em I'm not a quitter.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.

When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.