Drunkenness

“Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.”

“The use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage is as much an infatuation as is the smoking of opium by the Chinese, and the former is quite as destructive to the success of the business man as the latter.”

“It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.”

“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.”

“If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.”

“Men intoxicated are sometimes stunned into sobriety.”

“He that kyllyth a man drunk, sobur schal be' hangyd.”

“Tonight, may I get so drunk in love thatI do not see any dreams!”

“May my pain remain drunk singing its own love songs”

“It’s not my wish to walk intoxicated; to live for never is not my choice.”

“Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”

“The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, those who cannot control their appetites, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts — wets, drys and hypocrites.”

“In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.”

“Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.”