Horace Mann Quotes

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

I never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke or anything.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

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

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In his personal habits, Mr. Lincoln is as simple as a child…his food is plain and nutritious. He never drinks intoxicating liquors of any sort… He is not addicted to tobacco.

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

Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.

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

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.

When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.

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 don't party. I don't drink. I don't smoke.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

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

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.