~ Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.

John Erskine

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.

William Penn

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There was an old hen And she had a wooden leg And every damned morning She laid another egg; She was the best damned chicken On the whole damned farm - And another little drink Wouldn't do us any harm.

American Folksong

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]My manager saw me drinking backstage and he said 'Mitch, don't use liquor as a crutch.' I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely Sorrys up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see.

Mitch Hedberg

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease her husband leaves her in nine out often cases; when a man contracts it his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald