George Herbert Quotes

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

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.

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

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

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

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

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

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