Jose Bergamin Quotes

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.

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

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

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

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

… a jackass in the original package. He is a poor drunken imbecile.

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

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

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 gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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

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

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

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

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

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

Theodore [Roosevelt] is never sober. Only he is drunk with himself and not with rum.

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

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.