Quotes about Alcohol

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day.

Now young lady,' he said to me, 'I'm not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.

It isn't as it used to be in the old times. Then everybody traveled by steamboat, everybody drank, and everybody treated everybody else. 'Now most everybody goes by railroad, and the rest don't drink.

If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

As the new alcohol tumbled into his stomach and warmed him, the isolated pictures began slowly to form a cinema reel of the day before.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.