Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Although Drunkenness be justly termed a vice which the Salvages are ignorant of, yet the benefit is very great that comes to the planters by the sale of strong liquor to the Salvages, who are much taken with the delight of it; for they will pawn their wits, to purchase the acquaintance of it.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

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

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

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.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

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

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

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

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

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.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

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

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

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

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