Murat Halstead Quotes

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Theodore [Roosevelt] is never sober. Only he is drunk with himself and not with rum.

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

If we could make men sober, we would have no slavery.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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.

Joe McCarthy was the local town drunk in a business suit.

Who maintains the pubs and makes the peasants drunk? The peasant. Who embezzles the village, school, and parish funds and spends it all on drink? The peasant. Who robs his neighbor, sets fire to his house, and perjures himself in court for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

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

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

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

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