- “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”
– Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
- “He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.”
– Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD)
- “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
- “I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.”
- “I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
– Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
- “Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
- “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
- “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
– Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
- “A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”
- “Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
- “This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.”
– Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
- “Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
– Galileo (1564 – 1642)
- “Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
– Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD)
- “The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk they’re sober.”
– William Yeats (1865 – 1939)
- “Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.”
– Ecclesiastes 9:7
- “Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler;
whoever is led astray by them is not wise.”
– Proverbs 20:1
