King James I Quotes

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

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.

Do not drink wine, for it is the root of all evil.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

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.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

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

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

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.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

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

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

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.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

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.

Although Drunkenness be justly termed a vice which the Salvages are ignorant of, yet the benefit is very great that comes to the planters by the sale of strong liquor to the Salvages, who are much taken with the delight of it; for they will pawn their wits, to purchase the acquaintance of it.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

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.

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

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

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.