Book of Luke Quotes

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

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.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

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

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet - completely sober.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

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

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.