Decline Quote by William Graham Sumner

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and…

— William Graham Sumner

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent,…

— Thomas Adams

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

— Arthur Keith

“Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create…

— Henry Fielding

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but…

— Walter Raleigh

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

— Austin O'Malley

Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there;…

— Abraham Cowley

There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by…

— Jack London

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is…

— William Penn

“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station;…

— Charles Dickens

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for…

— Jeremy Taylor