81 quotes found
“An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.”
“Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drow...”
“Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.”
“We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You...”
“It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.”
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
“There are more old drunkards than old physicians.”
“He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.”
“Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.”
“I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.”
“We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.”
“The whole world is about three drinks behind.”
“A torch-light procession marching down your throat.”
“First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.”
“For when the wine is in the wit is out.”
“He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.”
“He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.”
“I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.”
“I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.”
“In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)”
