Quotes On Alcohol ’Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed but the excess.
John Selden (1584–1654)
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Thomas Fuller (1654–1734)
Alcohol does not drown care, but waters it and makes it grow faster
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
An alcoholic never feels fit as a fiddle because he is always as tight as a drum.
Drink has
Drained more blood
Hung more crepe
Sold more houses
Plunged more people into bankruptcy
Armed more villains
Slain more children
Snapped more wedding rings
Defiled more innocence
Blinded more eyes
Twisted more limbs
Dethroned more reason
Wrecked more manhood
Dishonored more womanhood
Broken more hearts
Blasted more lives
Driven more to suicide, and
Dug more graves than any other poisoned scourge that ever swept its death-dealing waves across the world.
Evangeline Cory Boom (1865–1950)
Drinking is the refuge of the weak; it is crutches for lame ducks.
E. Stanley Jones (1884–1973)
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 b.c.–a.d. 65)
Drunkenness is temporary suicide; the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970)
Drunkenness is the ruin of a person. It is premature old age. It is temporary death.
Saint Basil (c. 330–379)
First the man—takes the drink, then the drink—takes the man.
Japanese Proverb
I am the greatest criminal in history.
I have killed more men than have fallen in all the wars of all the world.
I have turned men into brutes.
I have made millions of homes unhappy.
I have changed many promising young men into hopeless parasites.
I destroy the weak and weaken the strong.
I make the wise man a fool and I ensnare the innocent.
I have ruined millions and shall try to ruin millions more.
I am alcohol.
H. W. Gibson
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!
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals, or manners.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
The drunken man is a living corpse.
Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347–407)
The man who drinks to drown his sorrow is trying to put out a fire with oil.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on the subject.
John Faucit Saville (1783–1853)
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, and then an enemy.
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)
