Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

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.

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

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.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

In my family, they were all big boozers.