John Woolman Quotes

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

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

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

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

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.

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.

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

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

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

Liquor perverts the end of society, and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite Feelings, which are the Cordials of Life, and the noblest Privileges of Humanity.

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.

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

The King, long in the habit of drowning his cares in wine, plunges deeper and deeper; the Queen cries out but, but sins on.

A drunk man is capable of every evil and prone to every temptation… Drinking renders its adherent incapable of any task

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

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.

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

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.

What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.