Anne Bronte Quotes

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

One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

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

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.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

God slaps you around a little bit when you drink too much.

I drink to forget I drink.

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

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

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.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

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

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

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.