Maria Edgeworth Quotes

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

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

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

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.

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.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober

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

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

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 didn't drink for two years.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

I have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.