Arthur Keith Quotes

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

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

I drink no more than a sponge.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

I don't drink at all.

I don't even drink.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

I've never been drunk. I've never even had a beer.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

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