Geneva Quotes

1. That no one shall invite another to drink under penalty of 3 sous; 2. That taverns shall be closed during the sermon, under penalty that the tavern -keeper shall pay 3 sous, and whoever may be found therein shall pay the same amount; 3. If anyone be found intoxicated he shall pay for the first offence 3 sous and shall be remanded to the consistory ; for the second offence he shall he held to pay the sum of 6 sous, and for the third 10 sous and be put in prison.

This day we have held a council, and it is agreed by the Shawnee in general that whatever rum is in our towns shall be broke and split and not drunk; and whosoever shall bring any rum or any sort of strong drink into our towns, Indian or white man, let it be little or much, it shall be broke or split in the presence of the whole town…

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

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.

Whoever shall have blasphemed, swearing by the body or by the blood of our Lord, or in similar manner, he shall be made to kiss the earth for the first offence ; for the second to pay 5 sous, and for the third 6 sous, and for the last offence be put in the pillory for one hour.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

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.

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

I don't like drinking, basically.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

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

I drink no more than a sponge.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Drinking is a remarkable, automatic release and a way of relaxing.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

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

McKinley drinks soda water, Bryan drinks rum; McKinley is a gentleman, Bryan is a Bum.

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

He [Peter the Great] took his bottle heartily, so must all the company; for when he was merry himself he loved to see everybody so; though at the same time he could not endure habitual drinkers, for such he thought unfit for business.