William Shakespeare on Intemperance
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“Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.”
“Sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name.”
“O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!”
“Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny, it hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne, And fall of many kings.”
“And now, in madness, Being full of supper and distempering draughts, Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come To start my quiet.”
“What's a drunken man like, fool? Like a drowned man, a fool and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.”
“I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; So full of valour that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground For kissing of their feet.”
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”