Seneca the Younger Quotes

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A drunk man is capable of every evil and prone to every temptation… Drinking renders its adherent incapable of any task

Drinking makes people go out of control.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

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.

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

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.

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