Horace Quotes

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

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

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

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.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I drink to forget I drink.

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