Carrie Nation famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
-- Carrie Nation

#Beer #Men #Devil
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could
-- Carrie Nation

#Tombstone #Faithful #Done
I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.
-- Carrie Nation

#Air #Smoking #Want
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
-- Carrie Nation

#Inspirational #Strength #Rocks
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
-- Carrie Nation

#Law
No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.
-- Carrie Nation

#Beer #Men #Devil
[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
-- Carrie Nation

#Order #Devil #Occupation
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
-- Carrie Nation

#Men #Smell #Smoking
God is a politician; so is the devil.
-- Carrie Nation

#Devil #Politician

Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.
I've never read anything about ***** where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

Carrie Nation famous quotes

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