Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

… a restraint of their debauchery by a strict execution of the laws provided against it, more particularly by the suppressing of superfluous brandy shops and unnecessary alehouses.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

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.

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.

In view of the well known facts that the sale and use in the Army of the United States of intoxicating liquors is the cause of such demoralization among both men and officers, and that such sale and use give rise to a very large proportion of the cases before general and garrison courts martial, involving great expense and serious injury to the service, it is therefore directed that the Secretary of War take suitable steps, as far as practicable consistent with vested rights, to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors (as a beverage) at the camps, forts, and other posts of the army.

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

I like whiskey and I like vodka, too. And beer.

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

The important thing is to be drunk.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.