Aldous Huxley Quotes

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

Do I think there is a heaven? Uh, yeah I do. Like a really big gymnasium. How do I see myself there? With really bad seats.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

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.

The atheist has no hope.

I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

Never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

If one could rise to heaven, there would not be any people on earth.

After the White House, what is there to do but drink?

That was my first real connection with Dre - that we both liked to drink.

It's questionable whether I believe in God or Jesus but I do believe in a spiritual world and some kind of afterlife.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.