Inspirational Quotes on Drunkenness

“Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.”

“He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever.”

“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty; the trouble of civility; the spoil of wealth; the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent; the tavern and ale house benefactor; the beggar's companion; the constable's trouble; his wife's woe; his children's sorrow; his neighbor's scoff; his own shame. In short he is a tub of swill, a spirit of unrest, a thing below a beast, and a monster of a man.”

“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”

“I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.”

“I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.”

“The alcoholic commits suicide on the installment plan.”

“I had rather be a sober heathen than a drunken Christian.”

“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.”

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