Tommy Douglas Quotes

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

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

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

If there is a good case to be made for the illegalization of drugs, there is a better case to be made for the illegalization for tobacco and alcohol.

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

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

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

This is not a prohibitive society. We're not going to tell people they can't smoke. We learned that we can't tell people they can't drink.

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

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'm anti-drugs, 100 percent. I don't like drugs or alcohol. I never did either of the two, and I don't plan on it.

I don't drink or smoke.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

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.