Alcohol Quote by Joseph Pennell

“That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition…

— Jack London

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they…

— Caroline Rody

“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so…

— Marcus Garvey

“Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.”

— Mark Twain

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

— Al Capone

“The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill.”

— William Carlos Williams

“Prohibition was better than no liquor at all.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And so it has taken me all of sixty years to understand that water is the finest drink, and bread the most delicious food.…

— Taha Muhammad Ali

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott

“The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving…

— Liz Hemingway

“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war,…

— Sharon E. McKay