Jack Kerouac Quotes

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

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.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.

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.

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.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

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.

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

Do not drink wine, for it is the root of all evil.

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

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

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.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

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'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

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