Charles Darwin Quotes

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

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

[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.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

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.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

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

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

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.

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

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.