Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

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

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

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

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

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.

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

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

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

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

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.'

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.