Jeremy Taylor Quotes

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 mad.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

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

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

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

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

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

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

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

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

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.