William Penn Quotes

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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

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

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Sometimes I had too many beers.

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

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

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

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