Alcohol Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alcohol Alcohol drinking Animal Animals Beer Beer and wine Beer drinking Cocktail drinks Cocktails Drank Drink Drinking Drinking alcohol Drinking beer Drinking funny Drinking wine Drunk Drunkenness Funny alcohol Funny beer drinking Funny drinking Funny sarcastic Getting drunk Good drinking Great alcohol Great drinking Liquor Liquor funny Shots drinking
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Ape chase the “after”, over life, for apes have alcohol in their vein.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals. — Pierre De Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why? — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. — William James Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I… — Tyson Beckford Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. — George Best Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
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