John Chrysostom Quotes

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

The speech of a Creek—Indian, against the immoderate use of spirituous liquors. Delivered in a national assembly of the Creeks, upon the breaking out of the late war.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Ye Dutch, Sweed, and English have by Brandy and Specially Rum, almost Debaucht ye Indians all. When Drunk ye most Wretched of Spectacles. They had been very Tractable but Rum is so dear to them

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

Most of the males have a strong passion for strong drink, especially rum.

This is a war between the rum shops and women…only one can win.