Quotes about Alcohol

I have always claimed America didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk.

I'm no expert, but I know one thing about anger—it's like alcohol. At some point, if you pour enough in there, it's coming back up. You may think you've built up a tolerance, but the truth is this—no man, not even Unc, can bury it so deep that it doesn't erupt at some point like Vesuvius and splatter your soul across the earth.

You know statistics have proven that listening to prohibition lecturers has driven more people to drink than any other cause.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.