Plautus Quotes

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

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

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

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

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

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

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

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.

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

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

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

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.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

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

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

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.

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.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.