Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

When drinkers became violent, communities accepted the idea that liquor was responsible for their actions; it made no sensate punish the person who committed the crime when the true offender was the alcohol.

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

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 is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

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

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

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

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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

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

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.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

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