Alcohol Quote by William Penn

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

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”

— William Penn

“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

Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.

— William Penn

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious;…

— Willa Cather

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

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

— Samuel Johnson

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

— Catherine Helen Spence

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes…

— Wyndham Lewis

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not…

— Raymond Chandler