Robert Hall Quotes

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

No brothers shall make, buy, sell, or use, as a beverage, any spirituous or Malt Liquors, Wine, or Cider.

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

... like Daniel Webster after taking a pint of brandy.

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.

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.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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.

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

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.

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

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

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

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

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.

This day we have held a council, and it is agreed by the Shawnee in general that whatever rum is in our towns shall be broke and split and not drunk; and whosoever shall bring any rum or any sort of strong drink into our towns, Indian or white man, let it be little or much, it shall be broke or split in the presence of the whole town…

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