Teetotaler Quotes & Sayings

Drunkenness was a communal and personal pleasure at once, a miserable state only to those not drinking. Sobriety to him was a cruel attack of conscience masking itself as awareness. If sober people were so aware, how come they only spoke truth when drunk? Give him the romance of a drunkard over the indignation of a teetotaler any day. — Marlon James

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The trouble with the merely unwise/deeply stupid line is that you often don't know which side you're on until it's too late. — Ransom Riggs

I'm glad i found photography. It's a way to connect with the world. — Susan Wiggs

It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music. — Ray Toro

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit. — Mahatma Gandhi

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet. — G.K. Chesterton

So is he gonna wake up from that nap yet or what? — Raymond Chandler

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers. — Dennis Hastert

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer. — George Bernard Shaw

concept: as i sleep, a star falls out of the sky. it makes its way down to me. it slips through my open window, floats into my chest and spreads its light throughout my body. it heals me — L.J. Buchanan

The typical socialist ... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. — George Orwell

If water was beer I'd be a teetotaler — Benny Bellamacina

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally. — Ambrose Bierce

The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife. — Jeremy McCarter

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis. — Frank Rich

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. — David Levithan

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day. — Dean Martin

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one. — Scott Ian

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler. — Dick Van Dyke